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Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson - A Biography.
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19930501
Author:Whittington-Egan, Richard
High on his Patmos of the Southern Seas Our northern dreamer sleeps...
Thus Richard Le Gallienne's Elegy for the newly-dead Robert Louis Stevenson: obit. December 3rd, 1894.
In these past ninety-nine years the biographies of R.L.S. -- from Balfour's hagiography through Baildon, Masson and Chesterton to Daiches, Elwin, Furnas, Aldington, Pope-Hennessy and Calder -- have risen to a tombstone's height, and 'like a portrait attempted too often, Stevenson has acquired many faces'. Is there space for yet another? Unequivocally, yes. And it was well worth publishing, for Mr. Bell has ...
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