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The Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Weir of Hermiston
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Publisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN/ASIN: 0715712705
Number of pages: 292

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In Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of father-son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. But the novel is unfinished. Stevenson was working on Weir the day he died.

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