Voyage to Windward: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson"The frail and indomitable figure of Robert Louis Stevenson rises from these pages vivid and intensely alive. But here too are a rich cast of Stevenson's contemporaries including his puzzled Victorian parents; the poetically beautiful Fanny Sitwell; Fanny Osborne, the American divorcee whom he married; Henry James; Henry Adams; William Ernest Henley and others." - Back cover. |
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