Saint-Eve

May 1813. Once in the Edinburgh castle, a medieval fortress-Tourm on a high rock, a brave Napoleonic soldier does not lose heart at all. And why should he lose heart? He is an orphan, a bachelor, no one is waiting for him in France (At least he assures so ..) Besides, the prison is not yet a gallows. There is always a chance to escape. The next volume of the “adventure masters” includes the last two masterpieces of Robert Luis Stevenson: “Saint-IV” is a historical adventurous Odyssey from the era of the English regency and “Wir Hermiston. An unfinished romance ”is a piercing saga of heather wasteland, about which the author himself said:“ She is so good that it scares me. ” For the first time, the Russian publishes a detailed comment on the history of this novel, written by Stevenson"s friend, the famous English literary critic Sir Sidney Colvin