Portrait of a Rebel - The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson
Title: Portrait of a Rebel - The Life and Work of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Richard Aldington
Publisher: Evans Brothers Ltd., London
Date: 1957
Hardback - 1st Edition with original dustcover. 245pp. Frontispiece and illustrated with 12 pages of b/w plates. With Selected Book List and Index.
Synopsis
At the time this was a new biography of one of Scotland's literary giants focusing primarily on how his beliefs in his later years were developed from his upbringing in early childhood and adolescence.
The biography attempts untangle the man from his literary work discussing the strict and frightening religious teachings of his nurse and of his father and then the human side of Stevenson's love for Fanny, his American Wife, his incessant quarrelling with William Ernest Henley and his deep friendships with Sidney Colvin and Edmund William Gosse.
The biography is described as "a full-length portrait of a contradictory writer of genius" from his childhood in Scotland to his death in Samao.
Condition Notes
This is a particularly well preserved copy of this edition with an extremely clean and relatively unblemished original unclipped dustcover with just a very few minor nicks. Inside the pages are bright and clean throughout.
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