Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 1995
Robert Louis Stevenson's 'David Balfour' was written six years after the publication of 'Kidnapped' to which it was a sequel. The production of this text was complex, involving two close friends of the author, Sidney Colvin and Charles Baxter, to whom he ceded his literary and financial rights. The complexity was also wrought in part by the distance between Samoa and UK, and in part by its serialization in 'Atlanta.' An account on how the book came to be called 'Catriona' in England and 'David Balfour' in US is given.
Kidnapped (1886) is in essence an unfinished story. After David Balfour's a...
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