If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...
Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. By Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press; 584 pages; $35 and £25 Few writers have the genius to create a mythic story that each generation reimagines for ...
With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested ...