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South Sea Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The literary world was shocked when in 1890, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently in Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction.

In stories such as The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices Stevenson shows himself to be virtuoso of narrative styles. This is the first collection to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume and in it Stevenson emerges as a witness to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

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Pages:: pages

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Edition:: Oxford World's Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0192837001

ISBN13:: 9780192837004

kindle Asin:: B00H7ENZEA

South Sea Tales

Robert Louis Stevenson

3.61/5 (655 ratings)

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The literary world was shocked when in 1890, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently in Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction.

In stories such as The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices Stevenson shows himself to be virtuoso of narrative styles. This is the first collection to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume and in it Stevenson emerges as a witness to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Edition:: Oxford World's Classics

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0192837001

ISBN13:: 9780192837004

kindle Asin:: B00H7ENZEA

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