{"product_id":"storyteller-the-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson-hardcover","title":"Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Damrosch brings to Stevenson's life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Club\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [An] excellent book.\"--Meghan Cox Gurdon, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals much about a writer that we think we knew. . . . Dazzling.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is famed for \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKidnapped\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, \u003c\/i\u003e but he published many other novels and stories before his death at forty-four. Despite lifelong ill health, he had immense vitality; Mark Twain said his eyes burned with \"smoldering rich fire.\" Born in Edinburgh to a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson set many stories in Scotland but sought travel and adventure in a life as romantic as his novels. \"I loved a ship,\" he wrote, \"as a man loves burgundy or daybreak.\" The adventures were shared with his free-spirited American wife, Fanny, with whom he moved to the South Pacific. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Samoan friends named Stevenson \"Storyteller.\" Reading, he said, \"should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.\" His own books have been translated into dozens of languages. Jorge Luis Borges called his stories \"one of the forms of happiness,\" and other modernist masters as various as Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino have paid tribute to his greatness as a literary artist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eStoryteller, \u003c\/i\u003e Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer's letters in his many voices and moods--playful, imaginative, at times tragic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeo Damrosch\u003c\/b\u003e is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include \u003ci\u003eJean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Award finalist); \u003ci\u003eAdventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eJonathan Swift: His Life and His World\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist). He lives in Newton, MA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 584\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.64 x 9.48 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47368652325042,"sku":"9780300268621","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/D2I6YrVVat9780300268621.webp?v=1777582296","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/storyteller-the-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}