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Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (Paperback)

by Alberto Manguel (Author)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (17 Feb 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841955981
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841955988
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 197,457 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Ingenious... This is a potent, poetic ghost story." Daily Mail; "Almost perfectly executed, it's an exquisite amuse bouche whose taste lingers on." The Times; "Manguel mixes motifs from Stevenson's life and work into a delightful literary souffle." Independent; "Richly told in faultless prose." Independent on Sunday; "Manguel is both the wizard releasing coloured doves from a black top hat and the dedicated scholar soberly at desk." Spectator"

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"Stevenson Under the Palm Trees is richly told in faultless prose." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Slight but enjoyable, 2 Dec 2008
By Kate Gardner (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is an intriguing little volume that's apparently loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's correspondence during his last few years. It's evocative and believable, though I'm not sure (if it's as fictionalised as it seems to be) why it needed to be based on a real person.
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3.0 out of 5 stars The mind plays tricks in the jungle, 11 Feb 2009
By Annabel Gaskell "gaskella2" (Nr Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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An odd little novella about Robert Louis Stevenson; this edition is lushly produced with posh covers and illustrated with some of Stevenson's own woodcuts (at 105 pages of big text it needs to justify its price tag!).

It's a story based on Stevenson's last days in Samoa as he is dying of tuberculosis. After his meeting with a newly arrived Scottish missionary, bad things start to happen and Stevenson is drawn into the events in a way such that in his ill state he can't be sure what's happening.

A powerful and slightly strange little story that echoes RLS's own work. Interesting but I would have preferred a longer novel or collection of stories.
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