Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
A estas alturas, que Robert Louis Stevenson es uno de mis autores favoritos está fuera de toda duda. Incluso en una novela "menor" como esta, ambientada en la guerra de las Rosas, y en la que vamos a disfrutar con una colección de aventuras y desventuras que van trazando el camino del héroe. Ágil, rápida, violenta, con diversidad de escenarios y acciones. Muy, muy entretenida.