Prince Otto: a romance (English Prince Otto) is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson novel, first published in 1885. The novel was written largely during 1883 in France where he was recovering from an illness respiratoria. A listless prince of a small and remote state is the victim of intrigues -palaciegas. Amid romances and other adventures, the protagonist becomes aware of its essential role in the future of their pueblo. Stevenson refers to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort", as one chapter was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and one for his wife.