Author of the timeless Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson is a hugely popular author, and one of the most translated in the world. First published in Pall Mall magazine in December of 1884, 'The Body-Snatcher' is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the famous Burke and Hare murders. Many of the Gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Höhe: 222 mm
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978-1-5287-7396-6 (9781528773966)
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and poet. While he was suffering from tuberculosis, he wrote one of the best known collection of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verse. He was great traveller, who travelled to Europe, America and the South Pacific, where he spent his last years in Samoa. He was respected and loved by the Samoans who called him Tusitala. He wrote several stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold. He wrote about good and evil, men struggling with the darkest parts of their souls in his novels. Robert Louis Stevenson was a master whose works offer persuasive insight into our hearts and minds.
