The Story of a Recluse
The Story of a Recluse has been the title of at least three works of fiction.
The first, an unfinished tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of Jamie Kirkwood, an Edinburgh minister's son who finds himself waking up in a room identical to his own in the house of a mysterious man called Manton Jamieson.
This formed the basis of a second work, a television play by Alasdair Gray. Written in 1985, the TV screenplay completes the original story by means of flashbacks from the 1930s. Gray then adapted this into yet another form, a short story in Lean Tales—the third incarnation of the title. It involved some alterations to the television play's plot, concentrating for the most part on a metafictional discussion of the reasoning by which Gray deduces how Stevenson's story should end.
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- An Inland Voyage (1878)
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878)
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)
- The Silverado Squatters (1883)
- Memories and Portraits (1887)
- Across the Plains (1892)
- Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892)
- The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
- Treasure Island (1883)
- Prince Otto (1885)
- Kidnapped (1886)
- The Black Arrow (1888)
- The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
- The Wrong Box (1889, with stepson)
- The Wrecker (1892, with stepson)
- Catriona (1893)
- The Ebb-Tide (1894, with stepson)
- Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished)
- St. Ives (1897, unfinished)
collections
- The Suicide Club (1878)
- The Rajah's Diamond (1878)
- New Arabian Nights (1882)
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885)
- The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
- Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
- Tales and Fantasies (1905)
- "The Pavilion on the Links" (1880)
- "Thrawn Janet" (1881)
- "The Merry Men" (1882)
- "The Body Snatcher" (1884)
- "Markheim" (1885)
- "Olalla" (1885)
- "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" (1886)
- "The Bottle Imp" (1891)
- "The Beach of Falesá" (1892)
- "The Isle of Voices" (1893)
- A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
- Underwoods (1887)
- Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
- Lloyd Osbourne
- Fanny Stevenson
- Isobel Osbourne
- The Student, newspaper
- Mount Vaea
- Writers' Museum
- Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
- Stevenson Memorial (1903 painting)
- The Story of a Recluse (unfinished)
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