Stevenson’s The Pavilion on the Links
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Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Pavilion on the Links is a tale of suspense involving a crooked banker, his daughter, two rather odd gentlemen who happen to be in love with her, and Italian revolutionaries whose money has been stolen by the banker (it’s reassuring to know that bankers have always been thoroughly untrustworthy). It has some definite gothic atmosphere, with a bleak and extremely isolated house in wild and desolate country, and with the two rivals for the daughter’s affections (especially Northmour) both having some of the characteristics of the doomed Byronic hero – both are in their different ways gloomy and misanthropic. Northmour is portrayed by Stevenson as a man without religious faith who is searching, without realising it, for something to believe in. I find Stevenson to be a very uneven writer indeed, but this is a thoroughly entertaining little novella.
dfordoom)Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Pavilion on the Links is a tale of suspense involving a crooked banker, his daughter, two rather odd gentlemen who happen to be in love with her, and Italian revolutionaries whose money has been stolen by the banker (it’s reassuring to know that bankers have always been thoroughly untrustworthy). It has some definite gothic atmosphere, with a bleak and extremely isolated house in wild and desolate country, and with the two rivals for the daughter’s affections (especially Northmour) both having some of the characteristics of the doomed Byronic hero – both are in their different ways gloomy and misanthropic. Northmour is portrayed by Stevenson as a man without religious faith who is searching, without realising it, for something to believe in. I find Stevenson to be a very uneven writer indeed, but this is a thoroughly entertaining little novella.
