Catriona (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading‪)‬

"Catriona so reeks and hums with genius that there is no refuge for the desperate reader but in straightforward prostration." - Henry James

Robert Louis Stevenson considered Catriona, the lively sequel to Kidnapped, his best work. At the end of Kidnapped, young David Balfour enters an Edinburgh bank to claim his inheritance., In the opening scene of Catriona, he comes out moneybags in hand. While Balfour entered the bank a somewhat stolid teenager; he exits into young manhood to contend with all the complexities of politics, love, and family