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From: Insight on the News
Date: 19950213
Author:Epstein, Daniel Mark
The romance of Robert Louis Stevenson's short life is known to most fans of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. He is one of a few authors so familiar we know him by his initials. Born in Edinburgh in 1850, RLS died in Samoa in 1894 after decades spent in pursuit of a climate fit for his delicate lungs. We have seen the bas-relief bronze medallion by St. Gaudens of the invalid upon his sickbed, a pathetic "syphilitic Christ" with pen in hand (or is it a cheroot?) revising a manuscript, a tragic exile in The Land of Counterpane.
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