Robert Louis Stevenson
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The critics who enjoyed Frank Mclynn's biography of Robert Louis Stevenson were so united in their views that, if it had been a school exam, they would have been hauled before the headmaster for cheating. 'A magnificent biography, ' Declared both Anthony Burgess in the OBSERVER and Godfrey Hodgson in the INDEPENDENT, 'A magnificently fresh, invigorating biography. ; concurred Sylvia Clayton in the LITERARY REVIEW. . . Review of Reviews, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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<p>A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotland. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of<i>Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde</i>.</p><p>The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary and as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public and, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife and stepchildren.</p><p>This powerful new study is published to mark the centenery of Stevenson's death at the age of forty-four.</p>
Autorenportrait
Frank McLynn is an historian and biographer who works across a number of fields. Much of his historiographical work has focussed on eighteenth-century Britain. His other works include<i>Carl Gustav Jung</i>(Bantam, 1996),<i>Napoleon</i>(Cape, 1997), and<i>1066, The Year of the Three Battles</i>(Cape, 1998).
Weitere Details
Erschienen: 10.07.2014
Umfang: 576 S., 4.85 MB
Sprache: ENG
ISBN/EAN: 9781448162772
Umbreit-Nr.: 7004807
