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It's fun to get to know "the man behind the author." To know what he liked and disliked; how he lived; the childhood pranks he played; his family background; where he felt most at home in the world.
And in this biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish poet and author, Catherine Peare brings to life, in her own warmhearted way, one of the world's best-loved children's writers.
With his unusual depth of understanding, RLS knew just what kind of stories and poems would interest and amuse young people. And so he is still a favorite with many thousands of today's children who read his A Child's Garden of Verses, Kidnapped, and Treasure Island with just as much pleasure and excitement as their fathers and mothers did before them.
Although he was an invalid a great part of his life, Robert Louis Stevenson was the kind of man to wear his troubles lightly. He had a loving, loyal family in Scotland who were always more than pleased to welcome him home after each one of his many trips abroad—to France, Italy, Belgium, and America. And in later life his American wife, Fanny, and his two stepchildren brought joy to this gifted writer with the lively imagination.
Certainly the man who wrote this as his requiem must have lived a full and happy life:
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
—from the dust jacket
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