Treasure Island (Large Print Edition) by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated) - Couverture souple

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1652042539 ISBN 13 : 9781652042532

Editeur : Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Presenting the Large Print edition of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Also available from Golding Books is The Essential Robert Louis Stevenson, featuring Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and The Master of Ballantrae. This collection is part of Golding Books' Essential Series.

The life of Robert Louis Stevenson was nearly as unusual and extraordinary as his literary output. By the end of his life, he had settled in the village of Vailima on the Samoan Island of Upolu, having journeyed around the Pacific and bought 400 acres of land there in 1890, and he was buried on Mount Vaea in 1894 at age forty-four.

His name is synonymous with far-flung adventure, his books remain amongst the most translated in the world, and his tales are the most set out upon, and then set out upon again, of an abundance of adventures and otherwise interesting tales where, after the passing of so much time, his Treasure Island and other works reign supreme. Among large print adventure books and large print action books (as well as large print classic literature in general) for young or old, one of the greatest books to begin, return to or share is Treasure Island!

Robert Louis Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850 (he would change the spelling to Louis at about age eighteen, and dropped Balfour in 1873). His mother’s side of the family were gentry, and his father, maternal grandfather, and his father's two brothers were all in the profession of lighthouse design. A sickly boy and only child, Stevenson found it difficult to fit in at school and sometimes had private tutors. He went on to study law and passed the bar, but he never practised. He traveled to various parts of Europe, including the French Riviera to recuperate his fragile health, and then devoted himself entirely to travel and writing, before moving to America in 1879 to be with the woman he had fallen in love with in France, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. They married in 1880, and spent the next decade traveling to Europe, the Hawaiian Islands, and other southern islands. His most famous works are Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). He died at Upolu, an island in Samoa where he had purchased land in 1890, of a likely cerebral haemorrhage in 1894.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1652042539
• ISBN 13: 9781652042532
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Tamblyn Nicholas, Eglund Katherine
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg