Louis : a life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Author(s)

• Callow, Philip

Bibliographic Information

Louis : a life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Philip Callow

Constable, 2001

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA5870009X
• ISBN:
  • 0094801800
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 336 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 823.8
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
  • LCSH : Authors, Scottish -- 19th century