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Pirates, lust and demons; Robert Louis Stevenson by Claire Harman HarperCollins [pounds sterling]25 . [pounds sterling]20 (0870 165 0870) ***.(Book Review)
From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20050501
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Byline: HARRY RITCHIE
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Claire Harman
HarperCollins [pounds sterling]25 . [pounds sterling]20 (0870 165 0870) ***
The Victorians liked their writers ill and ailing. A frail, flickering life and an early death - that was a sure-fire way to capture the public's imagination.
One of the Victorians' favourite brief lives, up there with the Brontes and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was Robert Louis Stevenson - a sickly, bedridden child who as a man had to travel ever further south for his health until death eventually caught up with him in ...
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