Edinburgh Notes
by H
About This Novel
"Edinburgh Notes", written in 1879, is one of Stevenson's most interesting and personal works. This book is composed of a series of essays, unfolding a unique landscape painting from Edinburgh's Old Town and Parliament Square to the New Town, Calton Hill and the Pentland Hills. The work is both a travelogue and interspersed with social commentary, and is overflowing with the author's feelings about his hometown. The Edinburgh in the book is a three-dimensional city with dramatic contrasts - a city spread out between the old and the new, between wealth and famine, between mansions and countryside. In some chapters, the author eulogizes the beauty of the city and its unique spiritual temperament with a sense of nostalgia, while in chapters such as "Legendary Stories", he focuses on the dark and gloomy side of Edinburgh, such as the alcoholic lower class, social scandals, crime on the fringes of the city, etc.
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