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Cover of David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Barry Menikoff
David Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Barry Menikoff


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2016
376 pages.
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Hardcover ISBN: 9780873282574

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David Balfour: The Original Text was originally published by Huntington Library Press and is now distributed by Stanford University Press.

This edition of David Balfour, which continues the epic story begun in Kidnapped, is based upon the original manuscript at Harvard University's Houghton Library, and presents—for the first time—the text as Robert Louis Stevenson wrote it. The introductory essay by Barry Menikoff restores the novel to its rightful place, alongside Kidnapped, as Stevenson's finest achievement in fiction, while Menikoff's extensive notes and glossary open up the political, cultural, and linguistic world of eighteenth-century Scotland for today's reader. Striking color illustrations from the original oil paintings of N.C. Wyeth, created in 1924, accompany the text.

About the authors

Barry Menikoff, author of Narrating Scotland (2005), is Professor Emeritus at The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.