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St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Romance · Adventure · History

Open Library OL20415836W

St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness.

About the author

Stevenson could write a straight adventure and a nightmare about a divided self in the same decade. Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde are both exact about consequence. More of this shelf for Robert Louis Stevenson.

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