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Robert Louis Stevenson.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050601
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Robert Louis Stevenson. Claire Harman. HarperCollins. [pounds sterling]25.00. xix + 503 pages. ISBN 0-00-711321-8. The author, who has already prepared editions of Stevenson's Essays and Poems and Selected Stories, describes Stevenson as 'a popular author but never a canonical one'. He was a 'highly professional writer'--essays, poetry, plays, novels, short stories and books--and is now largely forgotten. This biography is an attempt to restore him as 'a man of penetrating intelligence and strong feelings, with a wide range of interests', a man who was humorous and vulnerable, ...
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