St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Morland, Théodore Géricault and John Constable. A French prisoner of war in Edinburgh Castle carves toys for pennies, escapes over the wall, and travels the length of Britain — with a bounty on him, a rich uncle dying in Amersham and a cousin who wants him hanged. Stevenson left this unfinished at his death in Samoa, and this edition prints what he wrote, stopping where his manuscript breaks off; the Castle chapters and the flight through the snow are as good as anything he wrote. Sixty plates by Turner, Géricault and others track the castles, horses and soldiers of the road, matching the prisoner's journey stone by stone.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by George Morland, Théodore Géricault and John Constable. A French prisoner of war in Edinburgh Castle carves toys for pennies, escapes over the wall, and travels the length of Britain — with a bounty on him, a rich uncle dying in Amersham and a c...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish writer who composed fiction, essays, and poetry while traveling in Europe and the Pacific, eventually settling on the island of Samoa. His works include The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Catriona, The Black Arrow, St. Ives, and The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish writer who composed fiction, essays, and poetry while traveling in Europe and the Pacific, eventually settling on the island of Samoa. His works include The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Catriona, The Black Arrow, St. Ives, and The Merry ...
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