{"product_id":"myself-and-the-other-fellow-a-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson-9780066209845","title":"Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels  illness  struggles to become a writer  relationships with his volatile wife and step-family  friendships  and quarrels have fascinated readers for more than a century. He was both engineer and aesthete  dutiful son and reckless lover  Scotsman and South Sea Islander  Covenanter and atheist. Stevensons books  including Treasure Island  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde  and Kidnapped  have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae  A Childs Garden of Verses  Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favorites. His unique gift for storytelling and dramatic characterization live in the consciousness even of those who have never read his work: Long John Silver  with his wooden leg and his parrot  is more real to most people than any historical pirate  while \"Jekyll and Hyde\" has become a universally recognized term for a split personality. No biography has yet done justice to the complex  brilliant  and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable creations. His interest in psychology  genetics  technology  and feminism anticipated the concerns of the next century  while his experiments in narrative technique inspired postmodern innovators such as Borges and Nabokov. Stevensons recently collected correspondence shows him to have been the least \"Victorian\" of Victorian writers; he was a man of humour  resilience  and strongly uncoventional views. With access to this and much previously unpublishedmaterial  distinguished biographer Claire Harman has written the most authoritative  comprehensive  and perceptive portrait of Stevenson to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257046458421,"sku":"ByrdShop_0066209846","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780066209845.jpg?v=1781687243","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/myself-and-the-other-fellow-a-life-of-robert-louis-stevenson-9780066209845","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}