Louis
Author | : Philip Callow |
Publisher | : Constable Limited |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015050766677 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Louis written by Philip Callow and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy, and at 28 the lover of an American woman ten years his senior. The text chronicles Stevenson's life and achievements right through to his death in 1894.