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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume Two, April 1874-July 1879 (Hardcover, Abridged Ed)
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume Two, April 1874-July 1879 (Hardcover, Abridged Ed)
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Robert Louis Stevenson, celebrated author of such treasured
classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has long been recognized as a master
storyteller and essayist. But he was also a delightful and
instructive letter writer. Now, in the centenary of his death, Yale
University Press is publishing the definitive edition of
Stevenson's collected letters in eight handsomely produced volumes.
The edition will contain nearly 2800 letters; only 1100 have been
published before, and many of these were abridged or expurgated.
The letters make fascinating reading, not only for those interested
in Stevenson's life and work but also for everyone interested in
nineteenth-century literature and social history. The letters in
volumes I and II, which cover the years from 1854 to 1879, reveal
Stevenson's struggles to achieve success as an author. We learn of
his years as a student, his work, and his travels. We meet the
people who became his chief correspondents for the rest of his
life, including Sidney Colvin, who was to be his literary mentor
and lifelong friend; the poet and critic W.E. Henley; and Fanny
Osbourne, who later became Stevenson's wife. During this period
Stevenson published stories and essays and two books, An Inland
Voyage and Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, and set off on the journey
to the Cevennes later immortalized in his famous Travels with a
Donkey. Ernest Mehew's introduction and detailed annotation place
the letters in a biographical framework that gives a chronology of
Stevenson's life; explains his family background; and identifies
the people he met, the literary projects he planned, and the
contemporary events to which he refers.
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