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Article: Robert Louis Stevenson, Beyond the romance
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 4, 1994
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
By Frank McLynn. Random House. 567 pp. Illustrated. $30.
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Vols. I-IV.
Edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mayhew. Yale.
Illustrated. $45 each volume.
Robert Taylor is professor of English at Wheaton College.
One hundred years ago this weekend, Robert Louis Stevenson, age
44, died at Vailima, his home in Samoa. He had fetched a bottle of
Burgundy from the cellar and was helping his wife, Fanny, mix a salad
on the verandah when he suffered a stroke. Death arrived from an
unexpected quarter; since childhood, Stevenson had endured
respiratory illnesses akin to tuberculosis, clinging to life like an
acrobat on a ...