Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete...
There are many Stevensons behind the initials RLS, but the one that has endeared him to readers for so long is surely the fighter, battling to stay alive. Jorge Luis...
Following Stevenson's own views on biography, the book is not structured primarily in terms of chronology, but is more a kind of literary geography than traditional literary history.
An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from A Child's Garden of Verses, includes an introduction about the poet's life and work. Reprint.
... 193n , 203n , 284 & n , 294n , 295n Threlfall , ( Sir ) Richard and Evelyn Agnes , Lady , 529 & n Thurston , Sir John ... Alexander , 110n , 111 Traquair , Cecilia Ross ( née Munro ; William's wife ) , 237 Traquair , William ( RLS's ...
This new edition contains these collections and also some of Stevenson's printed and manuscript poems that have never been published in any collection.
This is the story of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule
The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence – which has been unavailable to all previous writers.
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Writers have messages to deliver, whether the work is a tale of Highland adventure, a collection of children’s verse, or an essay on umbrellas.