Robert Lewis Stevenson continues the story of David Balfour, starting directly where
Kidnapped left off. Compared to
Kidnapped,
Catriona is much more of a comedy of manners, politics, and romance than a simple action-adventure story, but it still has several of Stevenson’s trademark escapades, imprisonments, and daring escapes.
The title character David Balfour attempts to navigate, to his own peril, his apparent role in the Appin murder, the subsequent trial of James of the Glens, life among high society, and the machinations of James Macgregor Drummond, the father of..." data-title="Книга Catriona">