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Myself & the Other Fellow (Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Biography
Author: Claire Harman
Copyright/published Year: 2005 by Harper
ISBN: 0066209846
Binding: hardcover
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as
adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels,
illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his
volatile wife and step-family, friendships, and quarrels have
fascinated readers for more than a century. He was both engineer
and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South
Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books,
including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde, and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The
Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a
Donkey -- remain all-time favorites. His unique gift for
storytelling and dramatic characterization live in the
consciousness even of those who have never read his work: Long
John Silver, with his wooden leg and his parrot, is more real to
most people than any historical pirate, while "Jekyll and Hyde"
has become a universally recognized term for a split
personality.
No biography has yet done justice to the complex, brilliant,
and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable
creations. His interest in psychology, genetics, technology, and
feminism anticipated the concerns of the next century, while his
experiments in narrative technique inspired postmodern innovators
such as Borges and Nabokov. Stevenson's recently collected
correspondence shows him to have been the least "Victorian" of
Victorian writers; he was a man of humour, resilience, and
strongly uncoventional views. With access to this and much
previously unpublishedmaterial, distinguished biographer Claire
Harman has written the most authoritative, comprehensive, and
perceptive portrait of Stevenson to date.
Condition Information
This book is 'remaindered' and may have marks on the cover and/or bottom of pages.
Good condition.
Condition Description
Remainder mark on page bottoms. Cover has some "waviness" to it.
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