Robert Louis Stevenson: Seven Novels

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Michael A. Cramer PhD (Introduction)

Overview

No library's complete without the classics! This edition collects the greatest works of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose stories of excitement and adventure will never be forgotten.

He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold. He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling with the darkest parts of their souls. Acclaimed Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was a master whose works offer compelling insight into our hearts and minds. His novels should be studied and treasured, kept in every home library.

 

Featuring the full texts of Treasure Island, Prince Otto, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, The Master of Ballantrae, and David Balfour, this Canterbury Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson collects his greatest yarns. With an introduction by a renowned Stevenson scholar that illuminates his meanings and intentions, this edition is perfect for new and old fans alike.

 

Readers will want to keep Robert Louis Stevenson forever--and go on a never-ending adventure!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607108788
Publisher:	Canterbury Classics
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Series:	Leather-bound Classics
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	912
Lexile:	970L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a well-respected Scottish writer. With a propensity toward imaginative thought and rebellious philosophies, Stevenson traveled throughout the world during his life, using his experiences in much of his writing. His two best-known stories, Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, are classics of Western literature.

Michael A. Cramer, PhD, is a writer, an actor, and a filmmaker, who teaches communications at City College of New York and at Borough of Manhattan Community College. He is the author of A Confederacy of Whores: Media and Politics in George W. Bush's America and Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages, as well as numerous articles, short stories, screenplays and chap-books. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875