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Robert Louis Stevenson
Bryan Bevan
其他書名
Poet and Teller of Tales
出版Rubicon Press, 1993
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN09486952859780948695285
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m29bAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Born in mid-19th-century Edinburgh, Robert Louis Stevenson was a dedicated writer of remarkable versatility - novelist, essayist, travel-writer, poet, writer of ballads and fables, brilliant letter-writer and short-story writer of genius. Stevenson suffered from ill-health all his life and died at his Samoan home in the South Seas a century ago. wavered from his ardent resolution to become a writer, and his finest work was inspired by Scotland, especially the Highlands. He is famous not only for Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but also as the author of Thrawn Janet, set in his native Scotland, and many other stories of adventure, both macabre and humorous. latterly found inspiration in the South Seas, seen notably in Beach of Falesa and The Ebb-tide, but who remained forever nostalgic for his beloved homeland, as revealed in his unfinished masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston.