Rls: A Life Study
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few literary figures have captured the imagination quite like Robert Louis Stevenson — the restless, tubercular Scotsman who gave the world Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and some of the most enduring adventure tales in the English language. Jenni Calder's RLS: A Life Study presents a rich and rigorous portrait of Stevenson the man behind the myths, tracing his remarkable journey from the fog-bound streets of Edinburgh to the sun-drenched shores of Samoa, where he died at just forty-four years of age. Calder, a distinguished Stevenson scholar, illuminates the contradictions that defined this singular writer: a man of chronic ill health who nevertheless craved adventure, a devoted family man who remained perpetually restless, and a populist storyteller whose work contains profound moral and psychological complexity. Drawing on letters, journals, and contemporary accounts, the biography chronicles not only the arc of a literary career but the inner life of a man who refused to be constrained by convention or circumstance. RLS: A Life Study stands as an essential companion to the work of one of Victorian literature's most beloved and misunderstood figures — and leaves the reader wondering how much more this tireless spirit might have achieved.
Author: Jenni Calder
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few literary figures have captured the imagination quite like Robert Louis Stevenson — the restless, tubercular Scotsman who gave the world Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and some of the most enduring adventure tales in the English language. Jenni Calder's RLS: A Life Study presents a rich and rigorous portrait of Stevenson the man behind the myths, tracing his remarkable journey from the fog-bound streets of Edinburgh to the sun-drenched shores of Samoa, where he died at just forty-four years of age. Calder, a distinguished Stevenson scholar, illuminates the contradictions that defined this singular writer: a man of chronic ill health who nevertheless craved adventure, a devoted family man who remained perpetually restless, and a populist storyteller whose work contains profound moral and psychological complexity. Drawing on letters, journals, and contemporary accounts, the biography chronicles not only the arc of a literary career but the inner life of a man who refused to be constrained by convention or circumstance. RLS: A Life Study stands as an essential companion to the work of one of Victorian literature's most beloved and misunderstood figures — and leaves the reader wondering how much more this tireless spirit might have achieved.