Island Nights' Entertainments [Paperback]

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author), Gordon Brown (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 20, 2004

1893. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices. With Illustrations by Gordon Brown and W. Hatherell. A collection of stories from the writer of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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About the Author

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. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 284 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC; illustrated edition edition (September 20, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766190757
• ISBN-13: 978-0766190757
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,540,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.