Balfour, Graham. / [Stevenson, Robert Louis].

The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson.

London, Methuen and Co., 1906. 15 cm x 20 cm. XI, 451 pages. Portrait and Map included. Original hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Page edges worn and stained. Staining and brown spotting on some pages. Wear and slight tearing on spine. Otherwise clean inside. Three paper clippings glued on inside cover of book, dated October 26th 1912

Includes the following chapters:– His Ancestors / His Parents / Infancy and Childhood- 1850-59 / Boyhood- 1859-67 / Student Days- 1867-76 / Transition- 1876-79 / California- 1879-80 / Davos and the Highlands- 1880-82 / The Riviera- 1882-84 / Bournemouth- 1884-87 / The United States 1887-88 / The Eastern Pacific- 1888-89 / The Central Pacific- 1889-91 / Vailima- 1891-94 The End- 1894 etc.

″Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses.

A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”.”. (Wikipedia).

• Keywords: Biography · English Literature – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 44090AB

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