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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotland. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary and as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public and, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife and stepchildren. This powerful new study is published to mark the centenery of Stevenson's death at the age of forty-four.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 576
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 03 Mar 1994
ISBN 10: 0712658939
ISBN 13: 9780712658935
Book Overview: The critics who enjoyed Frank Mclynn's biography of Robert Louis Stevenson were so united in their views that, if it had been a school exam, they would have been hauled before the headmaster for cheating. 'A magnificent biography, ' Declared both Anthony Burgess in the OBSERVER and Godfrey Hodgson in the INDEPENDENT, 'A magnificently fresh, invigorating biography.; concurred Sylvia Clayton in the LITERARY REVIEW... Review of Reviews, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 19930907

Media Reviews
This is a magnificent biography, None better will be published this year; no better survey of the life of RLS is imaginable. -- ANTHONY BURGESS * OBSERVER *
Author Bio
Frank McLynn is an historian and biographer who works across a number of fields. Much of his historiographical work has focussed on eighteenth-century Britain. His other works include Carl Gustav Jung (Bantam, 1996), Napoleon (Cape, 1997), and 1066, The Year of the Three Battles (Cape, 1998).