Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...
Since his death, aged 44, in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson has had a “distinctly mixed” literary reputation, said Andrew Motion in The New Statesman. To many modernists, and especially the Bloomsbury ...
Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece. By Francine Prose Francine Prose’s new novel, “Five Weeks ...