Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780862411442)

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Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas

$14.00
Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Island Landfalls: Reflections from the South Seas

$14.00
Format: Paperback
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Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stir-about of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilizations, virtues and crimes'.

This collection sets three of his imaginative works -The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices, and The Beach of Falesa - within the social and political contexts of Stevenson's letters and essays from the South Seas. Island ambience, the clash of cultures, moral ambiguities, all are there, and so too is Stevenson's swift narrative control, giving a true modernity to his prose.



Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN-10: 0862411440
ISBN-13: 9780862411442
Publisher: Canongate Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2010
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
By Robert Louis Stevenson
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist who achieved worldwide acclaim for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson began with essays, short stories and travel writing, most notably Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). He is best remembered for his first novel Treasure Island (1883) and for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The great Scottish novels followed, with Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Weir of Hermiston (1893), which was left unfinished at his death. Catriona (1893), was always planned as the immediate sequel to Kidnapped, but had been delayed in the writing. Stevenson spent seven years in the South Seas, settling for the last five on the island of Upolu in Samoa, where he died suddenly from a cerebral stroke at the age of forty-four.

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