{"product_id":"9780862415334","title":"The Scottish Novels : Kidnapped: Catriona: The Master of Ballantrae: Weir of Hermiston by Jenni Calder","description":"Kidnapped - Catriona - The Master of Ballantrae - Weir of HermistonThese  four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson's  imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country.   Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona,  are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and  romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of  Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some  would say) the present day.   The Master of Ballantrae  takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers  caught in a webof hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them  to their end in the frozen wastes of North America.   Stevenson's fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son.   With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson's contemporaries to the present day.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295469973877,"sku":"9780862415334","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780862415334.jpg?v=1762768085","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780862415334","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}