Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886). It was first published in the magazine Atalanta from December 1892-September 1893. The novel continues the story of the central character in Kidnapped, David Balfour.
This novel's predecessor, Kidnapped, dealt mainly with a young boy's adventure. Sure, there are numerous references to Scottish history and the current political scene at the time the novel is set, but the reader is mainly entertained with a young lad's perilous adventures. In Catriona politics are pushed to the forefront and the adventure is merely given subplot status. Now if you love to see characters age and mature and enter different realms of life, and you enjoyed David Balfour's character in the first novel, you will enjoy the next tale in his interesting life; however, if you are picking up this sequel to revisit the excitement and passion from the first novel, you will be utterly disappointed.
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