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Resumen de Weir de Hermiston
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- Tiempo de lectura
- Unas 3 h 5 min2 h 30 min fast, 3 h 45 min slow
- Duración
- 44.500 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Mediano longer sentences, everyday words
- Primera publicación
- 1896by Robert Louis Stevenson
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You will love this book if you enjoy Scottish settings, stormy fathers and sons, vivid characters, courtroom scenes, and love stories on open moors.
De qué trata este libro
Picture a judge who jokes from the bench while a trembling prisoner is sentenced to hang, and a young man in the courtroom who cannot bear what he sees. That scene sits at the center of Weir of Hermiston, the last novel of Robert Louis Stevenson. It is set in Scotland in the early 1800s.
Stevenson died in 1894 with the book unfinished. You get a story of Adam Weir, the Hanging Judge, and his son Archie, a love story, and a close look at what the law does to those who serve it.
En este resumen
- 1A harsh judge marries a frightened wifeFree
- 2Father and son live as silent strangers
- 3One hanging breaks the peace between them
- 4A furious father sends his son away
- 5Exile on the moors brings Kirstie and her kin
- 6A glance in church sets love in motion
- 7Frank Innes arrives and the secret slips
- 8What the story means and how it is told
Idea clave 1 de 8
A harsh judge marries a frightened wife
The story opens with a marriage that seems made to fail. Adam Weir, a rough, powerful lawyer, notices Jean Rutherford and asks who she is and whether she is religious. Is she religious? She is the last of the riding Rutherfords of Hermiston, and she has grown up timid, tearful and devout.
Her land and money come with her, and Weir takes them. He teases her with grim jokes while she can only murmur his name in distress. Once she reaches out to him, and he laughs her off.
At Hermiston, the moorland estate, Jean tells her small son Archie tales of the Covenanters, the persecuted Presbyterians of old Scotland. She teaches him that tenderness is the whole of religion. The boy sees that his father fits every mark of the sinner his mother describes.
At seven, Archie tells her he does not see how a man can judge others for a living. Not long after, Jean dies suddenly, leaving a pair of slippers she has been stitching for her husband. It was a foolish marriage, he says. Then, suddenly, he asks where Archie is.
A marriage of opposites leaves a boy caught between two ways of seeing the world.
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- LengthAbout 44,500 words
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Questions about Weir de Hermiston
What is Weir of Hermiston about?
It follows Archie Weir, the son of the feared judge Lord Hermiston. After he protests a hanging, he is sent to live on the family estate, where he meets his housekeeper's niece Christina and falls in love.
Is Weir of Hermiston a finished novel?
No. Stevenson died in 1894 while writing it, so the story breaks off in the middle of its ninth chapter. Readers still enjoy it for its richly drawn people and its powerful early scenes.
Who is Lord Hermiston based on?
Lord Hermiston is a fictional judge, though he is often linked to real eighteenth-century Scottish judges. In the book he is Adam Weir, the Lord Justice-Clerk, a skilled lawyer who enjoys sentencing criminals.
Who are the Four Black Brothers?
They are Hob, Gib, Clem and Dand Elliott of Cauldstaneslap, Kirstie's nephews and Christina's brothers. A laird, a weaver and preacher, a Glasgow businessman and a shepherd poet, they are bound by pride in the family.
Is Weir of Hermiston easy to read?
Its story moves through clear scenes with strong characters. The Scots speech comes with context, and the narrator's warm, humorous voice carries the reader through courtrooms, kitchens and open moors.
Cita esta edición
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Weir of Hermiston. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/weir-of-hermiston.
Stevenson, R. L. (2026). Weir of Hermiston. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/weir-of-hermiston (Original work published 1896)
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Weir of Hermiston. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/weir-of-hermiston.
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