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RLS A Life Story Jenni Calder A Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson

Black & White pictures / drawings of Robert Louis Stevenson 1887 (Sir William Bake Richmond), 1892, 1893, 1913 & aged 26 years, Edinburgh, Swanston Cottage A W Henley 1875, 8 Howard Place, Alison Cunningham, Margaret Stevenson, Thomas Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (by E O Hoppé), Edmund Gosse, Siron's Inn, Barbizon c1875, Fanny Osborne, Bob Stevenson, Frank O'Meara, Chalet La Solitude Hyères c1912, Henry James, Fanny Stevenson, Lloyd, William Ernest Henley, King Kalakaua, Vailima Samoa, Belle, Joe Strong 1892 and other illustrations, Contents, The Hills and the Firth, The Shadow of the Child, A Heart of Fire, This Damned Life, The Mountains of the Moon, In Extremis, Too Little in Life, Hadden Doon by the Bubblyjock, A Weevil in a Biscuit, Times are Changed since the Lothian Road, Burgundy or Daybreak, Far Better Fun than People Dream, Hard Work and Short Commons, No Rest but the Grave, List of Robert Louis Stevenson's Works, Select Bibliography, Index

"The small photographic representations in this book reflect the times and people in the life of Robert Louis Stevenson and the book is unassuming from the exterior. Several of his books brings back childhood memories of stories that stretched my imagination as well as pleasure at the thrills his stories gave."  Kay ^{5th August 2005}

The book is dedicated: "in memory of my mother and for Alan and Liz" Acknowledgements Joe & Helen Furnas, David Daiches, Professor Alistair Fowler, Miss Marjorie Wynne, Colonel and Mrs Clifton-Brown, Lady Dunsire, Mrs Jane Thomson, Mr John Delahunt, Angus Calder.

Condition Used Good Paperback

Size 2.5 x 12.7 x 19.6cms Weight 340gms  362 Pages  Richard Drew Publishing Published 1990

UK £4.00 plus postage and packaging