An English writer, a Scotsman by origin, Robert Lewis Stephenson has gone down in the history of literature not only as a classic of neo-romanticism, the author of the most fascinating adventure novels, but also as a subtle stylist, master of psychological portrait, who can subtly and reliably describe historical events. The "Kidnapped. Catriona "is precisely devoted to the events connected with the struggle of the Scottish nationalists against the British government.