Description
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was an English author, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His very popular writings are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses. Robert was a key figure in his existence, and today ranks as the 26th highly interpreted writer in the world. His creativities have been appreciated by several other authors, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins”. Robert was also famous for the highly successful: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a novel of a dual personality most delineated in dramas and movies.His collection of short story comprises: New Arabian Nights; More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter; co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson; The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables; contains 6 stories; Island Nights’ Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) contains three longer; stories; Fables contains 20 stories: The persons of the tale, The sinking ship, The two matches, The sick man and the fireman, The devil and the innkeeper, The penitent, The yellow paint, The house of Eld, The four reformers, The man and his friend, The reader, The citizen and the traveller, The distinguished stranger, The carthorse and the saddlehorse, The tadpole and the frog, something in it, Faith, half faith and no faith at all, The touchstone, The poor thing, The song of the morrow; Tales and Fantasies, contains The Story of a Lie, The Body Snatcher, The Misadventures of John Nicholson; and other works of magnificence.
Product ID: 9781776742455
Sku: RV-TJ91-AH50
