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Stevenson's 'Treasure Island': Still Avast Delight

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060417
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An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.

By the early 1880s the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson had, as he recalled more than a decade later, "written little books and little essays and short stories, and had got patted on the back and paid for them." He had "quite a reputation," yet he was frustrated and unhappy, puzzled "that I should spend a man's energy upon this business, and yet could not earn a livelihood."

He was "the head of a family" and "had lost my health" to the tuberculosis that finally killed him at ...

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