Catriona

"'Catriona' so reeks and hums with genius that there is no refuge for the desperate reader but in straightforward prostration." - Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson considered "Catriona, " the lively sequel to "Kidnapped," his best work. At the end of "Kidnapped," young David Balfour enters an Edinburgh bank to claim his inheritance., In the opening scene of "Catriona," he comes out moneybags in hand. While Balfour entered the bank a somewhat stolid teenager; he exits into young manhood to contend with all the complexities of politics, love, and family