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Robert-Louis Stevenson
The Scottish Novelist and Travel Writer
John J. Chapman , Leslie Stephen , A. Compton-Rickett
“In an epoch when the ideals of George Eliot were still controlling, the figure of Stevenson rose with a sort of radiance as a writer whose sole object was to entertain. Most of the great novelists were then dead, and the scientific school was in the ascendant. Fiction was entering upon its death grapple with sociology. Stevenson came, with his tales of adventure and intrigue, out-of-door life and old-time romance, and he recalled to every reader his boyhood and the delights of his earliest reading. We had forgotten that novels could be amusing.
Hence it is that the great public not only loves Stevenson as a writer, but regards him with a certain personal gratitude. There was, moreover, in everything he wrote an engaging humorous touch which made friends for him everywhere, and excited an interest in his fragile and somewhat elusive personality supplementary to the appreciation of his books as literature.”
This book deals with the life and work of Stevenson, the Scottish great writer.
Book details
- Publisher
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Publication year
- 2024
- Collection
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9782386262920
- LAN
- 2ccfd7d9bf2c
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