The Dynamiter - Couverture souple

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0862990920 ISBN 13 : 9780862990923

Editeur : Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

Book by Stevenson Robert Louis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. I t, were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity-silent, Mr. Forster sappeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to these imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our defenders.
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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including 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 of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins Fanny Van de Grift (March 10, 1840 - February 18, 1914) was the wife of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne's mother. Fanny Van de Grift was born in Indianapolis on March 10, 1840. At 17, she married Samuel Osbourne. From this union, Isobel was born in 1858 and Samuel Lloyd in 1868. She married Robert Louis Stevenson (met during a stay in Grez in Seine-et-Marne) on May 19, 1880 in San Francisco, after obtaining a divorce from her Previous husband. The Silverado Squatters (The Silverado Squatters, 1883) recounts their honeymoon in a disused mine. She is credited as co-author of the second delivery of the Nine One Nights News: Le Dynamiteur, published in 1885.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0862990920
• ISBN 13: 9780862990923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208