| Description |
1 online resource (1 electronic document (180 pages)) |
| Contents |
Title; Contents; Dedication; Introductory; Chapter I Life and Death of Mrs. Weir; Chapter II Father and Son; Chapter III In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp; Chapter IV Opinions of the Bench; Chapter V Winter on the Moors; Chapter VI A Leaf from Christina's Psalm-Book; Chapter VII Enter Mephistopheles; Chapter VIII A Nocturnal Visit; Chapter IX At the Weaver's Stone; Glossary |
| Summary |
In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man |
| Notes |
Archived by the National Library of New Zealand |
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Title from PDF cover (viewed on Mar. 11, 2010) |
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Originally published in 1896 |
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Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. Nz |
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction
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Country life -- Fiction
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Young men -- Fiction
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Judges -- Fiction
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Country life
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Fathers and sons
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Judges
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Young men
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Scotland -- Fiction
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Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction
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Fiction
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Domestic fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775414209 |
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1775414205 |
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