Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Millions of readers throughout the world continue to enjoy Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other books by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). A celebrated author in many different fields of literature, Stevenson is also recognized as a highly engaging and prolific correspondent: he penned over 2,800 letters, which are contained in eight critically acclaimed volumes published by Yale University Press. In this book, 317 of Stevenson's most interesting and revealing letters represent each stage of his mature life. With a linking narrative and full annotation, Ernest Mehew sets the letters in the context of Stevenson's remarkable life. Beginning with the days of his troubled youth in Edinburgh, Stevenson's letters go on to tell of his love for Frances Sitwell, a beautiful, older married woman; a reckless journey to California in pursuit of Fanny Osbourne, the woman who became his wife; their worldwide but vain search for a healthy place to live; and a period of adventure in the South Seas, where Stevenson wrote some of his best work and became passionately involved in Samoan life. The letters show the author's zest for living despite daunting illnesses, his struggles with his own writing, his literary tastes, and his affection for his friends. Stevenson writes in many moods, ranging from playful and witty to deeply serious. Better than any biography ever could, these letters in Stevenson's own words tell the real story of his life.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146554903X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 982

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Authorship
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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ISBN: 9781479417414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for his classicn ovels, such as Treasure Island. This volume includes "The Dynamiter," a collection of connected short stories by Stevenson, including: Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb, and Story of the Fair Cuban.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226039285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Undeniably one of the modern world's greatest literary figures, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) left behind a correspondence documenting in intimate detail a life as intense in its extremes as his poetry. This extensive selection of his letters—many translated for the first time into English—depicts a poet divided between despair and elation, thoughts of suicide and intimations of immortality; a man who could write to his mother, "We're obviously destined to love one another, to end our lives as honestly and gently as possible," and say in the next sentence, "I'm convinced that one of us will kill the other"; who courted and then suffered the controversy provoked by his masterpiece, Les Fleurs du mal; who struggled throughout his life with syphilis contracted in his youth, near-intolerable financial restrictions imposed by his stepfather, and conflicting feelings of failure and revolt dating from his school days. Writing to family, friends, and lovers, Baudelaire reveals the incidents and passions that went into his poetry. In letters to editors, idols, and peers—Hugo, Flaubert, Vigny, Wagner, Cladel, among others—he elucidates the methods and concerns of his own art and criticism and comments tellingly on the arts and politics of his day. In all, ranging from childhood to days shortly before his death, these letters comprise a complex and moving portrait of the quintessential poet and his time.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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