Stevenson years biography

Robert Lewis Stevenson - He was born about the writer to offer changes: November 13 was born on November 13 in Edinburgh, in the engineer's family. At the baptism, Robert Lewis Balfur was named, but in adulthood he refused him, changing his last name to Stevenson, and writing the second name with Lewis to Louis without changing pronunciation. From his youth, Robert was prone to classes.

After graduation, he entered the University of Edinburgh. Stopping his choice at jurisprudence, he received the title of lawyer, but was hardly engaged in practice, since his health status, on the one hand, and the first successes in ... a literary field, on the other, convinced him to prefer literature to the bar. He lived mainly in France for the meager earnings of a writer who supplies hopes and rare money transfers from home, became his man in the “towns” of French artists.

Stevenson’s trips to France, Germany and his native Scotland include the same period, as a result of which his first two books of travel impressions appeared - “Treking inside the country” An Inland Voyage, and “Traveling with a donkey” by Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, the essays written during this period were collected in the book. Virginibus Puerisque in the French Dreamers, known for his meetings and meetings of artists, Robert Lewis met Frances Matilda Vandegrift Osbourne, an American older than him, carried away by painting.

Having left her husband, she lived with children in Europe. Stevenson warmly fell in love with her, and as soon as the divorce was received, on May 19, the lovers were combined in the marriage in San Francisco. Their joint life was marked by Fanny's vigilant care for her painful husband. In Stevenson, a diagnosis was made - tuberculosis. Partly due to poor health, partly to collect material for essays, Stevenson and his wife, mother and stepson went on a yacht in the southern regions of the Pacific Ocean.

They visited the Marquis Islands, Tuamot, Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia and Australia and acquired a plot of land on Samoa, saving for the sake of deciding to settle in the tropics for a long time. He called his possession Wilem Pyatorechye. Seeking the closest communication with local residents, Stevenson took a deep part in their fate and performed in print with the exposure of the colonial administration - the novel “Eight years in the danger of Samoa” A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa, the Testest, was, however Only the protest of romance, but he was not forgotten by people.

The climate of the island benefited him: some of his best works were written in the spacious plantator house in Weilim. In the same house on December 3, he died suddenly. Samoans admirers buried him at the top of the neighboring mountain. On the grave plate, the words from his famous “testament” “under the immense starry sky, the main contribution to Stevenson’s literature, can be called that he revived in England an adventure and historical novel.

But with all the skill of the narrative, he failed to raise it to the heights at which these genres stood with his predecessors. For the most part, the author was interested in the adventure for the sake of adventure, he was alien to the deeper motives of the adventure novel, like Daniel Defoe, and in a historical novel, he refused to depict large social events, limiting himself to the adventure of heroes, for which history serves only as an accidental background.

Stevenson’s well -known books are partly explained by the fascination of the topics raised in them: the pirate adventures in the Treasure Island Treasures, the fiction of horrors in the “strange story of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Haid” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. However, in addition to these advantages, it should be noted the rapid drawing of the character of John Silver, the density of the syllable in Dr.

Jekyle and Mr. Hyde, the glitter of irony in the "children's flower garden", indicating the versatility of his talent. He began his literary activity with the essays extremely valued at that time, written in a relaxed form, and never cheated on this genre. His articles about writers and writers are “modest objection” a Humble Remonstrance, “Dreams” Dreams, “On some technical elements of the literary style” On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, etc.

In the travel notes “Journey with the Osl.” Silverado ”The Silverado Squatters, and“ in the southern seas ”in the South Seas, masterfully recreated local flavor, and the latter are of particular interest to researchers. Stevenson’s little -known literary jokes stand among the most caustic, witty and laconic in English literature.

He wrote poetry from case to case and rarely treated them seriously. To penetrate the world of some works by Stevenson - the “abducted” KidnApped, and its continuation of the “Catrion” Catriona, “ruler of Ballantra” The Master of Ballantrae, “Highly Molods” The Merry Men, “Cursed Jenet” Thrawn Jaanet, - at least the reader will be required at least the reader.

would be a superficial acquaintance with the language and history of Scotland. Almost all of them - with the exception of the "cursed Jenn", a small pearl in the genre of stories about ghosts - are written unevenly. IVES, can be attributed to the number of obvious failures. However, the “Coast of Falesis” The Beach of Falesa is one of the best stories ever written about the southern seas, and extremely entertaining are the island fantasies “Satanic bottle” The Bottle IMP, and the “Voting Land” The Isle of Voices, it is generally accepted that Wir Hermiston is believed to Weir of Hermiston could become one of the great novels of the 19th century, but Stevenson managed to finish only a third of the book.

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