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St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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A Napoleonic-era romance following a French prisoner of war held in Edinburgh who escapes and pursues both freedom and a woman he loves. Suited to readers who enjoy Stevenson's adventure fiction and historical romance set in early nineteenth-century Britain.
Note: The 1995 date is a reprint; Stevenson died in 1894, and the novel was published unfinished in 1897.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
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