Book cover for Prince Otto Island Nights Entertainments Father Damien; Volume IV by Robert Louis Stevenson

Prince Otto Island Nights Entertainments Father Damien; Volume IV

2023 Released
450 Pages
7-10 Hours
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Legare Street PressISBN 9781020930706

This collection of three short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson showcases the author's mastery of the form. Prince Otto is a satirical romp through a fictional European kingdom, while Island Nights' Entertainments is a series of adventure stories set in the South Pacific. Father Damien is a moving tribute to the 19th-century Belgian priest who devoted his life to ministering to the leper colony on the island of Molokai. These stories are an excellent introduction to Stevenson's writing and a testament to his versatility as a storyteller. MEDIUM

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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