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- catalog abstract ""There are many Stevensons behind the initials RLS, but the one that has endeared him to so many readers for so long is surely the fighter, battling to stay alive. Jorge Luis Borges described Stevenson's brief life as courageous and heroic. In Philip Callow's new biography, one can see why." "Doctors, called repeatedly to what should have been his deathbed, would find a scarecrow, twitching and alive. A sickly child, Louis became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy traipsing through the mountains of France with a donkey, and at twenty-eight the lover of an American woman ten years his senior, the fabulous Fanny." "He escaped his Scottish town, his family, his friends who had mapped out a literary career for him in London, and instead went chaotically across the Atlantic and overland to California in poverty and despair to reach his beloved, wherupon he escaped into marriage and committed himself to being a nomad. He sailed the Pacific and dreamed of being an explorer; his restlessness was Victorian. All the while he was composing some of the most treasured tales in the English language."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12037864.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""There are many Stevensons behind the initials RLS, but the one that has endeared him to so many readers for so long is surely the fighter, battling to stay alive. Jorge Luis Borges described Stevenson's brief life as courageous and heroic. In Philip Callow's new biography, one can see why." "Doctors, called repeatedly to what should have been his deathbed, would find a scarecrow, twitching and alive. A sickly child, Louis became in turn a bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy traipsing through the mountains of France with a donkey, and at twenty-eight the lover of an American woman ten years his senior, the fabulous Fanny." "He escaped his Scottish town, his family, his friends who had mapped out a literary career for him in London, and instead went chaotically across the Atlantic and overland to California in poverty and despair to reach his beloved, wherupon he escaped into marriage and committed himself to being a nomad. He sailed the Pacific and dreamed of being an explorer; his restlessness was Victorian. All the while he was composing some of the most treasured tales in the English language."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-319) and index.".
- catalog description "Why Has God Got a Hell? -- The Noise of Pens Writing -- The Thunderbolt Has Fallen -- Remember That I Come of a Gloomy Family -- To Marry Is to Domesticate the Recording Angel -- The Great Affair Is to Move -- A Shipful of Failures -- All Kinds of Miseries Here -- The Wolverine on My Own Shoulders -- Flutes of Silence -- A Steam Press Called the Vandegrifter -- The Purity of Forests -- Get Out Your Big Atlas -- To See These Dread Creatures Smile -- It Does Make You Feel Well -- Do I Look Strange? -- Works / Robert Louis Stevenson.".
- catalog extent "xi, 336 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Louis.".
- catalog identifier "1566633435 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Louis.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : Ivan R. Dee,".
- catalog relation "Louis.".
- catalog spatial "Foreign countries".
- catalog spatial "Scotland".
- catalog subject "828/.809 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Scottish 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR5493 .C28 2001".
- catalog subject "Scots Travel Foreign countries History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.".
- catalog subject "Travelers Scotland Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Why Has God Got a Hell? -- The Noise of Pens Writing -- The Thunderbolt Has Fallen -- Remember That I Come of a Gloomy Family -- To Marry Is to Domesticate the Recording Angel -- The Great Affair Is to Move -- A Shipful of Failures -- All Kinds of Miseries Here -- The Wolverine on My Own Shoulders -- Flutes of Silence -- A Steam Press Called the Vandegrifter -- The Purity of Forests -- Get Out Your Big Atlas -- To See These Dread Creatures Smile -- It Does Make You Feel Well -- Do I Look Strange? -- Works / Robert Louis Stevenson.".
- catalog title "Louis : a life of Robert Louis Stevenson / Philip Callow.".
- catalog type "Biografieën (vorm) gtt".
- catalog type "text".