About “Weir of Hermiston”
Weir of Hermiston is an 1896 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that was left unfinished at the time of his death in 1894 from a cerebral haemorrhage. The work stands apart from his previous writings in style and has been frequently called a potential masterpiece. The story is set during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)