Category: Biography
Copyright/published Year: 2005 by Harper
ISBN: 0066209846
Binding: hardcover
Description:
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as ì
adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, ì
illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his ì
volatile wife and step-family, friendships, and quarrels have ì
fascinated readers for more than a century. He was both engineer ì
and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South ì
Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, ì
including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. ì
Hyde, and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The ì
Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a ì
Donkey -- remain all-time favorites. His unique gift for ì
storytelling and dramatic characterization live in the ì
consciousness even of those who have never read his work: Long ì
John Silver, with his wooden leg and his parrot, is more real to ì
most people than any historical pirate, while "Jekyll and Hyde" ì
has become a universally recognized term for a split ì
personality.
No biography has yet done justice to the complex, brilliant, ì and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable ì creations. His interest in psychology, genetics, technology, and ì feminism anticipated the concerns of the next century, while his ì experiments in narrative technique inspired postmodern innovators ì such as Borges and Nabokov. Stevenson's recently collected ì correspondence shows him to have been the least "Victorian" of ì Victorian writers; he was a man of humour, resilience, and ì strongly uncoventional views. With access to this and much ì previously unpublishedmaterial, distinguished biographer Claire ì Harman has written the most authoritative, comprehensive, and ì perceptive portrait of Stevenson to date.
This book is 'remaindered' and may have marks on the cover and/or bottom of pages and is in Good condition.
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Remainder mark on page bottoms. Cover has some "waviness" to it.
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