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South Sea Tales
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Description for South Sea Tales
Paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 234.
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of ... Read more
The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
233g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199536085
SKU
V9780199536085
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Ref
99-3
About Robert Louis Stevenson
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Reviews for South Sea Tales
a real treasure. ... RLS at his most serious and playful.
Daily Telegraph Arts and Books section, 19 July 1997
Daily Telegraph Arts and Books section, 19 July 1997