The House on the moor
the House on the moor ( The Pavilion one the Links ) is a Nouvelle of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Initially published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1880, it was taken again in volume in 1882 in the collection of news News Thousand and One Nights ( The New Arabian Nights ).
Stevenson starts to work over this new in November 1878 as it brings it back in the Education of an engineer , starting from banal a Fait various associated with a Anecdote with youth. However, the House is always at the stage of outline one year later, when it leaves on August 7th, 1879 bound for the California in order to find there the woman whom it loves, Fanny Osbourne. It completes the news during its stay with Monterey in November 1879. On its return in Europe in August 1880, Leslie Stephen, the director of the time of the Cornhill Magazine immediately accepts to publish it. The news appears in two deliveries, in the numbers of September and October of the review, simply signed by the three initial “R.L.S.”. It marks the beginning of its recognition in the literary circles. In Through the Magic Door (1907), Arthur Conan Doyle judge that the House on the moor forms part, with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , the two masterpieces of Stevenson and remembers the way in which it pure model of dramatic narration its spirit had struck when he discovered it in the Cornhill .
Typically Scottish, the term links indicates a formed ground of sandy dunes, generally covered with grass which one frequently finds near the maritime shores. Stevenson does not hesitate besides to provide its personal definition of it to the beginning of the news: . This specificity constitutes a shelf of the translation, the French term “Lande” being what would approach some best. This choice is supported by that of Stevenson as for the name of the owner of the house: Northmour, is, literally, “the moor of north”. Resulting from the memories of youth of Stevenson, these links is not other than those of North Berwick, where it spent the holidays in summer 1862.
Among the cinematographic adaptations of the House on the moor , one can note that of Maurice Tourneur in 1920 with the white Circle ( The White Circle ), like, more recently, that of C. Grant Mitchell in 1999, The Pavilion with Craig Sheffer, Patsy Kensit and Richard Chamberlain.
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