He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold.He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling with the darkestparts of their souls. Acclaimed Scottish writer Robert LouisStevenson was a master whose works offer compelling insight intoour hearts and minds. His novels should be studied and treasured,kept in every home library. Featuring the full texts of "TreasureIsland," "Prince Otto," "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,""Kidnapped," "The Black Arrow," "The Master of Ballantrae," and"David Balfour," this Canterbury Classics edition of "Robert LouisStevenson" collects his greatest yarns in an elegant, leather-boundbook. With gilded edges, a ribbon bookmark, and other excitingenhancements, as well as introduction by a renowned Stevensonscholar that illuminates his meanings and intentions, this newedition is the perfect gift or keepsake. Readers will want to keep"Robert Louis Stevenson" forever--and go on a never-endingadventure!
【作者简介】
Robert Louis Stevenson The Victorian poet and novelist RobertLouis Stevenson once said, "Don't judge each day by the harvest youreap, but by the seeds you plant." The author of the magical AChild's Garden of Verses and the chilling The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson indeed planted powerful literaryseeds -- that grew into undisputed classics. Biography Robert LouisStevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. His father was anengineer, the head of a family firm that had constructed most ofScotland's lighthouses, and the family had a comfortable income.Stevenson was an only child and was often ill; as a result, he wasmuch coddled by both his parents and his long-time nurse. Thefamily took frequent trips to southern Europe to escape the cruelEdinburgh winters, trips that, along with his many illnesses,caused Stevenson to miss much of his formal schooling. He enteredEdinburgh University in 1867, intending to become an engineer andenter the family business, but he was a desultory, disengagedstudent and never took a degree. In 1871, Stevenson switched hisstudy to law, a profession which would leave time for hisalready-budding literary ambitions, and he managed to pass the barin 1875. Illness put an end to his legal career before it had evenstarted, and Stevenson spent the next few years traveling in Europeand writing travel essays and literary criticism. In 1876,Stevenson fell in love with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, a marriedAmerican woman more than ten years his senior, and returned withher to London, where he published his first fiction, "The SuicideClub." In 1879, Stevenson set sail for America, apparently inresponse to a telegram from Fanny, who had returned to Californiain an attempt to reconcile with her husband. Fanny obtained adivorce and the couple married in 1880, eventually returning toEurope, where they lived for the next several years. Stevenson wasby this time beset by terrifying lung hemorrhages that would appearwithout warning and required months of convalescence in a healthyclimate. Despite his periodic illnesses and his peripatetic life,Stevenson completed some of his most enduring works during thisperiod: Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885),Kidnapped (1886), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). After hisfather's death and a trip to Edinburgh which he knew would be hislast, Stevenson set sail once more for America in 1887 with hiswife, mother, and stepson. In 1888, after spending a frigid winterin the Adirondack Mountains, Stevenson chartered a yacht and setsail from California bound for the South Pacific. The Stevensonsspent time in Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Australia, beforesettling in Samoa, where Stevenson bought a plantation calledVailima. Though he kept up a vigorous publishing schedule,Stevenson never returned to Europe. He died of a sudden brainhemorrhage on December 3, 1894. Author biography from the Barnes& Noble Classics edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll andMr. Hyde. Good To Know It has been said that Stevenson may well bethe inventor of the sleeping bag -- he described a largefleece-lined sack he brought along to sleep in on a journey throughFrance in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Long JohnSilver, the one-legged pirate cook in Stevenson's classic TreasureIsland, is said to be based on the author's friend William ErnestHenley, whom he met when Henley was in Edinburgh for surgery tosave his one good leg from tuberculosis. Stevenson died in 1894 atVailima,, his home on the South Pacific island of Upolu, Samoa. Hewas helping his wife make mayonnaise for dinner when he suffered afatal stroke. Also Known As: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Date ofBirth: 十一月 13, 1850 Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Date ofDeath: 十二月 3, 1894 Place of Death: Vailima, Samoa
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