South sea tales / Robert Louis Stevenson

By:

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: xliii, 289p, 19cmISBN:

0192837001

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DDC classification:

823 STE

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The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach at Falesa', the folktale plots of `The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. This collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume.

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