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, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. An only child, strange-looking and eccentric, he found it hard to fit in when he was sent to a nearby school at age six, a problem repeated at age eleven when he went on to the Edinburgh Academy. His frequent illnesses often kept him away from his first school, so he was taught for long stretches by private tutors. He was a late reader, first learning at age seven or eight. He compulsively wrote stories throughout his childhood. His father was proud of this interest and paid for the printing of Robert's first publication at sixteen, an account of the covenanters' rebellion, which was published on its two hundredth anniversary, The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, 1666 (1866). In November 1873, after his health failed, he was sent to Menton on the French Riviera to recuperate. He returned in better health in April 1874 and settled down to his studies, but he returned to France several times after that. He qualified for the Scottish bar in July 1875 and although his law studies would influence his books, he never actually practised law. In 1890 he purchased a tract of about 400 acres in Upolu, an island in Samoa. Here, after two aborted attempts to visit Scotland, he established himself, after much work, upon his estate in the village of Vailima. He took the native name Tusitala (Samoan for "Teller of Tales", i.e. a storyteller). His influence spread to the Samoans, who consulted him for advice, and he soon became involved in local politics.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson novel published in 1888. A story is subtitled winter. The book's story revolves around the conflict between two brothers, two Scottish nobles, whose family is confronted by the Jacobite rebellion of 1745. It is a book of its last stage, six years before his death. The novel was adapted into a movie called The Prince of Scotland in 1953, with Errol Flynn in the principal.También paper produced numerous television adaptations, one of which dates from 1984 and is starring actor John Gielgud.
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