In his “sensible, sympathetic and thorough” biography, the American scholar Leo Damrosch chronicles Stevenson’s “fascinating” life and offers “wise” judgements about his work. “Stevenson was a ...
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...
Yet even Robert Louis Stevenson, the genius behind The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, had moments when the ink dried, distractions crept in, and the story refused to find its end.