Robert Louis Stevenson av Claire Harman

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The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence ¿ which has been unavailable to all previous writers.The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson¿s books, including ¿Treasure Island¿, ¿The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde¿ and ¿Kidnapped¿, have achieved world fame; others ¿ ¿The Master of Ballantrae¿, ¿A Child¿s Garden of Verses¿, ¿Travels with a Donkey¿ ¿ remain all-time favourites. His unique gift for storytelling and dramatic characterisation has meant that some of his characters live in the consciousness even o