Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson
Barnes & Noble
<p>"'Catriona' so reeks and hums with genius that there is no refuge for the desperate reader but in straightforward prostration." - Henry James<BR><P>Robert Louis Stevenson considered <I>Catriona,</I> the lively sequel to <I>Kidnapped</I>, his best work. At the end of <I>Kidnapped</I>, young David Balfour enters an Edinburgh bank to claim his inheritance., In the opening scene of <I>Catriona</I>, 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</P></BR></p>