Bibliograph

Louis, a life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip Callow

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Louis, a life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip Callow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index"Works by Robert Louis Stevenson": p. 315-316

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Louis

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

44876960

Responsibility statement

Philip Callow

Review

"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."--Jacket

Sub title

a life of Robert Louis Stevenson

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