Robert Louis Stevenson

Tales of the South Seas

Island Landfalls: The Ebb-Tide: The Wrecker
Herausgeber: Calder, Jenni

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Produktbeschreibung

sland Landfalls  The Wrecker  The Ebb-TideDriven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 776
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 126mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780862416430
• ISBN-10: 0862416434
• Artikelnr.: 40866716

Autorenporträt

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was a Scottish novelist, poet and essayist who achieved worldwide acclaim for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson began with essays, short stories and travel writing, most notably Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879). He is best remembered for his first novel Treasure Island (1883) and for The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The great Scottish novels followed, with Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Weir of Hermiston (1893), which was left unfinished at his death. Catriona (1893), was always planned as the immediate sequel to Kidnapped, but had been delayed in the writing. Stevenson spent seven years in the South Seas, settling for the last five on the island of Upolu in Samoa, where he died suddenly from a cerebral stroke at the age of forty-four.