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Catriona

Robert Louis Stevenson

The story follows David Balfour as he attempts to secure justice for a man wrongly accused of murder in 18th-century Scotland.

"Catriona" by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novel. The story follows David Balfour as he attempts to secure justice for a man wrongly accused of murder in 18th-century Scotland.

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The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, and some of the chief of these merchants bowing me from their doors. Two days before, and even so late as yestermorning, I was like a beggar-man by the wayside, clad in rags, brought down to my last shillings, my companion a condemned traitor, a price set on my own head for a crime with the news of which the country rang. To-day I was served heir to my position in life, a landed laird, a bank porter by me carrying my gold, recommendations in my pocket, and (in the words of the saying) the ball directly at my foot.

Contents

  1. 01Part I. The Lord Advocate
  2. 02Chapter I. A Beggar on Horseback
  3. 03Chapter II. The Highland Writer
  4. 04Chapter III. I Go to Pilrig
  5. 05Chapter IV. Lord Advocate Prestongrange
  6. 06Chapter V. In the Advocate’s House
  7. 07Chapter VI. Umquile the Master of Lovat
  8. 08Chapter VII. I Make a Fault in Honour
  9. 09Chapter VIII. The Bravo
  10. 10Chapter IX. The Heather on Fire
  11. 11Chapter X. The Red-Headed Man
  12. 12Chapter XI. The Wood by Silvermills
  13. 13Chapter XII. On the March Again with Alan
  14. 14Chapter XIII. Gillane Sands
  15. 15Chapter XIV. The Bass
  16. 16Chapter XV. Black Andie’s Tale of Tod Lapraik
  17. 17The Tale of Tod Lapraik
  18. 18Chapter XVI. The Missing Witness
  19. 19Chapter XVII. The Memorial
  20. 20Chapter XVIII. The Tee’d Ball
  21. 21Chapter XIX. I Am Much in the Hands of the Ladies
  22. 22Chapter XX. I Continue to Move in Good Society
  23. 23Part II. Father and Daughter
  24. 24Chapter XXI. The Voyage Into Holland
  25. 25Chapter XXII. Helvoetsluys
  26. 26Chapter XXIII. Travels in Holland
  27. 27Chapter XXIV. Full Story of a Copy of Heineccius
  28. 28Chapter XXV. The Return of James More
  29. 29Chapter XXVI. The Threesome
  30. 30Chapter XXVII. A Twosome
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII. In Which I Am Left Alone
  32. 32Chapter XXIX. We Meet in Dunkirk
  33. 33Chapter XXX. The Letter from the Ship
  34. 34Conclusion

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
271 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers