Veuillez indiquer si vous voulez ou non que les autres utilisateurs puissent voir dans votre profil que cette bibliothèque est l’une de vos préférées.
Trouver un exemplaire dans la bibliothèque
Recherche de bibliothèques qui possèdent cet ouvrage...
Détails
| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Personne nommée : | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Frank McLynn |
| ISBN : | 0679412840 9780679412847 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 30702857 |
| Notes : | Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1993. |
| Description : | 567 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Responsabilité : | Frank McLynn. |
Résumé :
"Robert Louis Stevenson's extraordinary life had a formal structure like that of a hero in Greek myth. A difficult childhood in the care of a demon-haunted Calvinistic nurse and a battle of wills with his autocratic father were followed by marriage to a difficult woman from California. After valiant struggles with illness (in the form of a lung disease, probably tuberculosis), he returned to Scotland for reconciliation with his father, and on the patriarch's death left his native land forever to die prematurely in the South Seas." "In reasserting Stevenson's claims as a writer of genius and moral seriousness, Mr. McLynn emphasizes the many obstacles that stood in his path: his father, his poor health, the squeamishness of the Victorian reading public, and, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife and stepchildren - stresses that materially contributed to his early death in 1894 at the age of forty-four. Above all, the author's life is a story of courage - not just the bravery to face Pacific hurricanes unblinkingly, but the moral strength required to wrestle with many conflicts simultaneously while daily facing possible death from his weak lungs."--BOOK JACKET.
Critiques
Critiques d’utilisateurs
Ajoutez une critique et partagez vos impressions avec d’autres lecteurs.
Soyez le premier.
Ajoutez une critique et partagez vos impressions avec d’autres lecteurs.
Soyez le premier.
Tags
Ajoutez des tags pour "Robert Louis Stevenson : a biography".
Soyez le premier.
Ouvrages semblables
Sujets associés :(2)
Listes d’utilisateurs dans lesquelles cet ouvrage apparaît (1)
- Stevenson Schreiner Thesis(147 ouvrages)
de selenography mise à jour 2009-10-10
