Vailima Letters [Paperback]

Robert Louis Stevenson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 13, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1426409532 | ISBN-13: 978-1426409530

Short excerpt: To come down covered with mud and drenched with sweat and rain after some hours in the bush, change, rub down, and take a chair in the verandah, is to taste a quiet conscience.

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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: 224 pages
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar (July 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1426409532
• ISBN-13: 978-1426409530
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)