PDF Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Joseph Farrell 9781848668812 Books

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This readable account by a retired professor of Italian literature teases out Stevenson's complex relationship with colonialism. Though rather disarmingly presented as based on a brief visit to Steveson's Pacific home during a break from a visiting gig at an Autralian university, and by no means the first book on its topic, it is fluently written and will provide an interesting introduction for those who know only a little about this phase of Stevenson's life from his own writings or from standard biographies. Only well-prepped Stevenson scholars, though, are in a position to judge the extent to which the book has fresh information or ideas to offer.