Catriona

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.

At a glance Catriona resumes the story Stevenson began in Kidnapped, sending David Balfour from… The novel keeps the earlier book’s pace and suspense, but adds a more intricate… Themes The novel explores loyalty, political violence, legal power, personal integrity… Stevenson balances chase and conversation, making the book both an adventure narrative…

The novel explores loyalty, political violence, legal power, personal integrity, exile, national conflict, and the difficult relation between romance and public action.