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Article: Re-telling RLS's life story in the same old way.(Book Review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2005
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Byline: TOM KYLE
Critic's choice ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: A BIOGRAPHY by Claire Harman (HarperCollins, [pounds sterling]25)
IT seems there is no limit to the number of books that can be written about Robert Louis Stevenson.
His first biographer was at work within days of his death in Samoa in 1894 and there have been many more since.
Now, with Claire Harman, we have yet another runner in this crowded field - and there is at least one major work on RLS still in production.
But it is with Miss Harman's contender that we are concerned. She has a decent pedigree. Her first book, a biography of writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, won The ...