Tales From the South Sea

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Tales of the South Seas gathers all of Stevenson's South Sea fiction and a selection of prose and letters provides not only a vivid portrait of a colorful and exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers. Zusammenfassung 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'.

Product details

• Authors: Jenni Calder, Lloyd Osbourne, Robert Louis Stevenson
• Assisted by: Jenni Calder (Editor), Calder Jenni (Editor), Jenni Calder (Introduction), Calder Jenni (Introduction)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2001
• EAN: 9780862416430
• ISBN: 978-0-86241-643-0
• No. of pages: 776
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 197 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Canongate Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Essays, Literarische Essays, Klassische Belletristik, Belletristik: Erzählungen, Kurzgeschichten, Short Stories, FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary