St. Ives (novel)

St. Ives (novel)

Infobox Book |
name = St. Ives


image_caption =
author = Robert Louis Stevenson
illustrator =
cover_artist =
country = Scotland
language = English
genre = Novel
publisher = Scribner's
release_date = 1897
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages =
isbn = NA

"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.

The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British.

The 1949 film "The Secret of St. Ives" and the 1998 film "St. Ives", also known as "All For Love", were based on the novel.

External links

* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=title%3ASt.%20Ives%20creator%3Astevenson%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts "St. Ives"] , available at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions illustrated)


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