He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold.
He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling with the darkest
parts of their souls. Acclaimed Scottish writer Robert Louis
Stevenson was a master whose works offer compelling insight into
our hearts and minds. His novels should be studied and treasured,
kept in every home library. Featuring the full texts of "Treasure
Island," "Prince Otto," "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,"
"Kidnapped," "The Black Arrow," "The Master of Ballantrae," and
"David Balfour," this Canterbury Classics edition of "Robert Louis
Stevenson" collects his greatest yarns in an elegant, leather-bound
book. With gilded edges, a ribbon bookmark, and other exciting
enhancements, as well as introduction by a renowned Stevenson
scholar that illuminates his meanings and intentions, this new
edition is the perfect gift or keepsake. Readers will want to keep
"Robert Louis Stevenson" forever--and go on a never-ending
adventure!
關於作者：
Robert Louis Stevenson The Victorian poet and novelist Robert
Louis Stevenson once said, "Don''t judge each day by the harvest you
reap, but by the seeds you plant." The author of the magical A
Child''s Garden of Verses and the chilling The Strange Case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson indeed planted powerful literary
seeds -- that grew into undisputed classics. Biography Robert Louis
Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. His father was an
engineer, the head of a family firm that had constructed most of
Scotland''s lighthouses, and the family had a comfortable income.
Stevenson was an only child and was often ill; as a result, he was
much coddled by both his parents and his long-time nurse. The
family took frequent trips to southern Europe to escape the cruel
Edinburgh winters, trips that, along with his many illnesses,
caused Stevenson to miss much of his formal schooling. He entered
Edinburgh University in 1867, intending to become an engineer and
enter the family business, but he was a desultory, disengaged
student and never took a degree. In 1871, Stevenson switched his
study to law, a profession which would leave time for his
already-budding literary ambitions, and he managed to pass the bar
in 1875. Illness put an end to his legal career before it had even
started, and Stevenson spent the next few years traveling in Europe
and writing travel essays and literary criticism. In 1876,
Stevenson fell in love with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, a married
American woman more than ten years his senior, and returned with
her to London, where he published his first fiction, "The Suicide
Club." In 1879, Stevenson set sail for America, apparently in
response to a telegram from Fanny, who had returned to California
in an attempt to reconcile with her husband. Fanny obtained a
divorce and the couple married in 1880, eventually returning to
Europe, where they lived for the next several years. Stevenson was
by this time beset by terrifying lung hemorrhages that would appear
without warning and required months of convalescence in a healthy
climate. Despite his periodic illnesses and his peripatetic life,
Stevenson completed some of his most enduring works during this
period: Treasure Island 1883, A Child''s Garden of Verses 1885,
Kidnapped 1886, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886. After his
father''s death and a trip to Edinburgh which he knew would be his
last, Stevenson set sail once more for America in 1887 with his
wife, mother, and stepson. In 1888, after spending a frigid winter
in the Adirondack Mountains, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set
sail from California bound for the South Pacific. The Stevensons
spent time in Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Australia, before
settling in Samoa, where Stevenson bought a plantation called
Vailima. Though he kept up a vigorous publishing schedule,
Stevenson never returned to Europe. He died of a sudden brain
hemorrhage on December 3, 1894. Author biography from the Barnes
Noble Classics edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde. Good To Know It has been said that Stevenson may well be
the inventor of the sleeping bag -- he described a large
fleece-lined sack he brought along to sleep in on a journey through
France in his book Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Long John
Silver, the one-legged pirate cook in Stevenson''s classic Treasure
Island, is said to be based on the author''s friend William Ernest
Henley, whom he met when Henley was in Edinburgh for surgery to
save his one good leg from tuberculosis. Stevenson died in 1894 at
Vailima,, his home on the South Pacific island of Upolu, Samoa. He
was helping his wife make mayonnaise for dinner when he suffered a
fatal stroke. Also Known As: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Date of
Birth: 十一月 13, 1850 Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Date of
Death: 十二月 3, 1894 Place of Death: Vailima, Samoa
目錄：
INTRODUCTION
TREASURE ISLAND
PRINCE OTTO
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
KIDNAPPED
THE BLACK ARROW
THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE
DAVID BALFOUR
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