SOURCE: "Adventure," in Robert Louis Stevenson, New Directions Books, 1947, pp. 32-73.
In the following excerpt, Daiches discusses Stevenson's decision to cast his novel "in one of the oldest of all narrative moulds—the quest." Below, Daiches examines Stevenson's use of plotting techniques that heighten the novel's suspense.
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