Selected Poems
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
30 September 1998
Summary
The first selection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry ever made, it makes available a neglected area of his writing.
The author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is known all over the world as a master storyteller, yet his achievements as a poet have been strangely neglected. This book reveals how much we have been missing.
Fascinated by a wide variety of verse techniques, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) produced superb work in styles ranging fro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140435481 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140435484 |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Angus Calder |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 September 1998 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city’s professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.
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