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Robert Louis Stevenson
Series: Critical Lives
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This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trotting author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It charts his remarkable literary range from fiction and poetry to essays and letters crafted across...
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R. L. Stevenson's life and writing, reflecting a restless mind in a global age.
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Description
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trotting author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It charts his remarkable literary range from fiction and poetry to essays and letters crafted across three continents, often in poor health.
Stevenson's adventurous life and memorable characters captured both popular imagination and critical praise. Drawing on new scholarship, the book explores his role as a literary innovator and cultural commentator, revealing how his work engaged with the anxieties of a rapidly changing world.
At once celebrity, critic, and colonial observer, Stevenson emerges as a truly modern writer whose influence remains potent today. Robert Louis Stevenson by Glenda Norquay is essential reading for lovers of literature, history, and global storytelling.
Series: Critical Lives
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781836391685
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Illustration: 34 illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Glenda Norquay is professor emerita of Scottish literature at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books on Stevenson include Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s.
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