South Sea Tales
$23.71
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2008
Summary
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction.
In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199536085 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199536082 |
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Roslyn Jolly |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
‘a real treasure. … RLS at his most serious and playful.‘Daily Telegraph Arts and Books section, 19 July 1997
`a real treasure. … RLS at his most serious and playful.‘Daily Telegraph Arts and Books section, 19 July 1997
Robert Louis Stevenson
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction.
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