Louis: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
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This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy, and at 28 the lover of an American woman ten years his senior. The text chronicles Stevenson's life and achievements right through to his death in 1894.
Author: Philip Callow
Format: Hardback, 448 pages, 153mm x 234mm, 705 g
Published: 2001, Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Historical, Political & Military
Description
This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy, and at 28 the lover of an American woman ten years his senior. The text chronicles Stevenson's life and achievements right through to his death in 1894.
Louis: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson