 Frontispiece by George Grenville Manton | |
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Scribner's |
Publication date | 1897 |
| Publication place | Scotland |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Text | St. Ives at Wikisource |
St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
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Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. [1]
The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
