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R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson)

Jenni Calder

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Description:In this biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenni Calder sets out to explore the shaping factors of a life whose ambivalence produced such masterpieces as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Weir of Hermiston.Growing up in the second half of the nineteenth century, Stevenson rebelled against the restrictive morality of his parents' generation, and found the Calvinism of his own city of Edinburgh both damaging and compelling. But he was never merely a rebel.Hampered by respiratory illnesses that kept him an invalid for long periods, and often by personal difficulties, he struggled constantly to maintain his unconventional but highly scrupulous way of life. Steven has sometimes been remembered chiefly as a writer for children, but he was also a prolific essayist, poet and novelist with a special feeling towards the land of his birth. Most of his life was a necessary exile in France, the United States and the South Pacific, far from his beloved Scotland which was the inspiration for so much of his work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson). To get started finding R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 382

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Chambers

Release: 1990

ISBN: 0862672708

Description: In this biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenni Calder sets out to explore the shaping factors of a life whose ambivalence produced such masterpieces as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Weir of Hermiston.Growing up in the second half of the nineteenth century, Stevenson rebelled against the restrictive morality of his parents' generation, and found the Calvinism of his own city of Edinburgh both damaging and compelling. But he was never merely a rebel.Hampered by respiratory illnesses that kept him an invalid for long periods, and often by personal difficulties, he struggled constantly to maintain his unconventional but highly scrupulous way of life. Steven has sometimes been remembered chiefly as a writer for children, but he was also a prolific essayist, poet and novelist with a special feeling towards the land of his birth. Most of his life was a necessary exile in France, the United States and the South Pacific, far from his beloved Scotland which was the inspiration for so much of his work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson). To get started finding R.L.S.: A Life Study (A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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