The Story of a Recluse
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There have been at least three works of fiction under this name. One, an unfinished tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of Jamie Kirkwood, an Edinburgh minister's son who finds himself waking up in a room identical to his own in the house of a mysterious man called Manton Jamieson. This formed the basis of a television play by Alasdair Gray, written in 1985, which by means of flashback from the 1930's completes the original story. Gray further adapted this into a short story in Lean Tales, which makes some alterations to the television play's plot and concentrates for the most part on a metafictional discussion of the reasoning by which Gray deduces how Stevenson's story should end.
