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Robert Louis Stevenson - A different view. (Reviews).(Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20011201
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard

Louis: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. Philip Callow. Constable. [pounds sterling]20.00. 336 pages. ISBN 0-094-80180-0.

There are certain men and women who by reason of their genius, eminence, achievement, or idiosyncracy seem to exercise a sort of magnetism on biographers and publishers. There are in my library whole shelves of lives of such 'biography prone' ones as Jane Austen, the Brontes, the Brownings, Dickens, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wilde, Wells and Shaw. Another such is R.L.S.

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