An edition of Louis (2001)

Louis

a life of Robert Louis Stevenson

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An edition of Louis (2001)

Louis

a life of Robert Louis Stevenson

"There are many Stevensons behind the initials RLS, but the one that has endeared him to so many readers for so long is surely the fighter, battling to stay alive. Jorge Luis Borges described Stevenson's brief life as courageous and heroic. In Philip Callow's new biography, one can see why.".

"Doctors, called repeatedly to what should have been his deathbed, would find a scarecrow, twitching and alive. A sickly child, Louis became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy traipsing through the mountains of France with a donkey, and at twenty-eight the lover of an American woman ten years his senior, the fabulous Fanny.".

"He escaped his Scottish town, his family, his friends who had mapped out a literary career for him in London, and instead went chaotically across the Atlantic and overland to California in poverty and despair to reach his beloved, wherupon he escaped into marriage and committed himself to being a nomad. He sailed the Pacific and dreamed of being an explorer; his restlessness was Victorian. All the while he was composing some of the most treasured tales in the English language."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Constable
Language
English
Pages
336

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Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
April 25, 2001, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
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Louis: a life of Robert Louis Stevenson
2001, Constable
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Cover of: Louis
Louis: a life of Robert Louis Stevenson
2001, Ivan R. Dee
in English
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Louis: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Edition Notes

Published in the U.S.A. by Ivan R. Dee.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index.

"Works by Robert Louis Stevenson": p. 315-316.

Published in
London
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.8
Library of Congress
PR5493 .C28 2001b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21095768M
Internet Archive
louislifeofrober0000call
ISBN 10
0094801800
OCLC/WorldCat
45899665
Library Thing
1887142

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