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020 $a0066209846 (acid-free paper)$0(uri) http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/0066209846
035 $a(OCoLC)58789173$0(uri) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58789173
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100 1 $aHarman, Claire$0(uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83006657$0(uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|n83006657
240 10 $aRobert Louis Stevenson
245 10 $aMyself and the other fellow :$ba life of Robert Louis Stevenson /$cClaire Harman.
250 $a[1st American ed.]
260 $aNew York :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c2005.
300 $axix, 503 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $a"First published as Robert Louis Stevenson : a biography in Great Britain in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers" -- T.p. verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [483]-489) and index.
505 0 $aBaron Broadnose -- Velvet coat -- The careless infidel -- Ah welless -- Stennis Frère -- The amateur emigrant -- The professional sickist -- Uxorious Billy -- A weevil in a biscuit -- The dreamer -- Below zero -- Ona -- Tusi Tala -- The tame celebrity.
520 1 $a"The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson [1850-94] was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships, and quarrels have fascinated readers for more than a century. No biography has yet done justice to the complex, brilliant, and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable creations. His interest in psychology, genetics, technology, and feminism anticipated the concerns of the next century, while his experiments in narrative technique inspired postmodern innovators such as Borges and Nabokov. Stevenson's recently collected correspondence shows him to have been the least "Victorian" of Victorian writers; he was a man of humour, resilience, and strongly unconventional views. With access to this and much previously unpublished material, distinguished biographer Claire Harman has written the most authoritative, comprehensive, and perceptive portrait of Stevenson to date."--Jacket.
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