Emma, I have scratched out the beginning to my father, for I think I can write more easily to you. This is my last farewell to all, the last you will ever hear or see of an unworthy friend and son. I have failed in life; I am quite broken down and disgraced. I pass under a false name; you will have to tell my father that with all your kindness. It is my own fault. -- with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.
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Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Throughout the island world of the Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Ned, Captain Brown, Sally Day, John Davis, Trinity Hall, Robert Herrick, Captain Tom, South Seas, John Dyvis New!
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- The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Part Four by Sidney Colvin on 11 pages
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- Treasured Islands: Cruising the South Seas With Robert Louis Stevenson by Lowell D. Holmes on 6 pages
- Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition by Andrea White on 5 pages
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