Planned with his stepson Osbourne, but written by Stevenson, this was the last novel completed by the writer before his death. It is a grim, realistic story set in the South Pacific. The text is accompanied by a full introduction, textual and explanatory notes and editorial commentary.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
