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Dreams of Exile Robert Louis Stevenson by Ian Bell

Everyone has their own RLS – the sickly, dreaming child; the bohemian dandy outraging Victorian Edinburgh; the romantic wanderer trailing his donkey over the Cevennes; the frail genius doomed to die young; the man of action avid for experience in all corners of the globe; the writer of children's stories familiar from a thousand television and film dramas; the essayist who matched Hazlitt and the novelist to whom even Henry James deferred. All of these are RLS: none of them are the real Stevenson. Here is an attempt to see RLS whole, to trace the line of descent from the son of Calvinist engineers to the writer who stood against the British Empire for the sake of the Samoan Islanders.

Features;

• Publisher Mainstream Publishing, London; 1992
• Black Cloth Hardback, 295 pp
• Illustrated with B/W plates
• Size 240 x 160mm, 950g
• ISBN 1 85158 457 9

Condition: Very Good – Very Good Unclipped Dust Jacket, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy

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