- Paperback: 776 pages
- Publisher: Canongate Classics (Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0862416434
- ISBN-13: 978-0862416430
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 4.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,325,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last seven years of his life traveling in the U.S. and the South Seas, finally settling on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It was here that some of his most famous novels were written. This volume's selection of prose and letters provide not only a vivid portrait of an exotic world, but also a full and rounded picture of a superb writer at the height of his powers.
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Attention all students of literature!, 2 May 2000
By Jack Trammell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tales of the South Seas (Canongate Classics) (Paperback)
It wasn't until I had nearly reached the last page of The Wrecker that I realized R.L. Stevenson meant for the book to read as slowly as it did. Though there were sections of high drama, I had struggled with the pace to that point, viewing it as a bit staid or wordy, much more so than other works of his I had read.In the end, though, I could clearly see his clever intentions. Stevenson's "Tell-Tale" clues indicated that The Wrecker was a response to the jerking, backwards plots of the modern mystery story. Stevenson intentionally slowed the narrative speed, blunted the sharp edges (in contrast to Poe's hard-hitting, most famous stories), and added descriptive eloquence, sometimes blatantly disconnecting it from the plot (in a mixed tribute to Dickens, perhaps). He took the reversed chronology of a murder mystery, and flipped it backwards one more time.
The Wrecker will not be a bestseller in 2000. Nor should it be. It is a masterpiece, however, and will present a remarkable view of the evolution of the modern novel from inside the mind of one of its architects to any student of literature who takes time out to read it.
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