Dreams of exile : Robert Louis Stevenson, a biography
Bell, Ian
Dreams of exile : Robert Louis Stevenson, a biography / Ian Bell. - 1st American ed. - New York : H. Holt , 1993. - xxiii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-282) and index.
Born in Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) early on rejected the family business of designing and building lighthouses in favor of a writing career. Bell, a Scottish journalist, has captured the short but varied life of this accomplished author in an entertaining and detailed study. Plagued by tuberculosis, the adult Stevenson fled Scotland's rainy climate, opting instead for the French Riviera and later for the United States, where he traveled in search of Fanny Osbourne, the married American he loved. They married in 1880, signalling the start of his most productive period, that of Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). The couple would later travel throughout the South Seas, eventually settling on the island of Samoa, where Stevenson spent his last years. Clearly a Stevenson devotee, Bell in his sympathetic portrait provides insight into his subject's eventful life and his equally eventful writing career.
9780805028072
93003792
Stevenson, Robert Louis , 1850-1894
Authors----Scottish----19th Century----Biography
Travelers----Biography
PR5493 / .B4 1993
92 STE
Dreams of exile : Robert Louis Stevenson, a biography / Ian Bell. - 1st American ed. - New York : H. Holt , 1993. - xxiii, 296 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-282) and index.
Born in Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) early on rejected the family business of designing and building lighthouses in favor of a writing career. Bell, a Scottish journalist, has captured the short but varied life of this accomplished author in an entertaining and detailed study. Plagued by tuberculosis, the adult Stevenson fled Scotland's rainy climate, opting instead for the French Riviera and later for the United States, where he traveled in search of Fanny Osbourne, the married American he loved. They married in 1880, signalling the start of his most productive period, that of Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). The couple would later travel throughout the South Seas, eventually settling on the island of Samoa, where Stevenson spent his last years. Clearly a Stevenson devotee, Bell in his sympathetic portrait provides insight into his subject's eventful life and his equally eventful writing career.
9780805028072
93003792
Stevenson, Robert Louis , 1850-1894
Authors----Scottish----19th Century----Biography
Travelers----Biography
PR5493 / .B4 1993
92 STE
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