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The Story of a Recluse has been the title of at least three works of fiction. The first 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 second work a television play by Alasdair Gray. Written in 1985 the TV screenplay completes the original story by means of flashbacks from the 1930s.