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Robert Louis Stevenson (Magill Book Reviews)

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Shortly following Robert Louis Stevenson’s death in 1894, an acrimonious feud erupted over his memory. On the one hand, his wife and a handful of critics such as Arthur Quiller-Couch placed him in the company of William Shakespeare, John Milton, and John Keats. On the other, his old friend William Ernest Henley and others blasted him as an imposter with a facile pen, all show and no substance, whose great promise had been blighted by a domineering wife.

After a thorough reading of the refinements in Stevenson scholarship during the past century, Frank McLynn has fashioned a...

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