Name: St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England, A NOVEL: By Robert Louis Stevenson(13 November 1850 - 3 December
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Author: Colvin, Sir Sidney ; Quiller Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas ; Stevenson, Robert Louis
ISBN: 9781536894974

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St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England, A NOVEL: By Robert Louis Stevenson(13 November 1850 - 3 December

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

210

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9781536894974

Synopsis "St. Ives: being the adventures of a French prisoner in England, A NOVEL: By Robert Louis Stevenson(13 November 1850 - 3 December"

St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. The book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British. The book is available on Project Gutenberg in both its incomplete and complete form (for the story as completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch look for "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson volume twenty.").The 1949 film The Secret of St. Ives and the 1998 film St. Ives, also known as All For Love, were based on the novel. A television mini-series based on the novel was broadcast on the BBC in 1955. For the movie the character may have been changed to a Captain, and his first name changed to Jacque, as there seems to be confusion on these points........ Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."... Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch, Birthdate: 1863, Birthplace-Bodmin, Cornwall, UK.Death: Died May 12,1944 in Fowey, Cornwall, UK.... Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 - 11 May 1927) was an English curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He is primarily remembered for his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson....

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(Edinburgh, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. He entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of sixteen to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lighthouse engineer, a career he would later abandon. His nautical studies allowed him to come into contact with seafaring people and customs, key ingredients in some of his most famous works. His renowned work, Treasure Island, was published under the pseudonym Captain George North in 1881. In 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the great classics of literature, was released. He died on the island of Samoa, at his home, Vailima.

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