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The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world : a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world : a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
Physical Description:
viii, 229 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. But now Brian Doyle brings Stevenson's untold tale to life, braiding the adventures of seaman John Carson with those of a young Stevenson, wandering the streets of San Francisco, gathering material for his fiction, and yearning for his beloved across the bay. An adventure tale, an elegy to one of the greatest writers of our language, a time-traveling plunge into The City by the Bay during its own energetic youth, The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World is entertaining, poignant, and sensual"--
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Publication Info:
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Subject:
Authors -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Historical fiction.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 -- Fiction.
Stevenson, R. L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894
Shih-ti-wen-sheng, 1850-1894
Stivenson, Robert Lui, 1850-1894
Sŭtʻibŭnsŭn, R. L., 1850-1894
Sitivensin, Robert Loui, 1850-1894
Stivenson, Robert Lʹi͡uis, 1850-1894
Stivensoni, Robert Luis, 1850-1894
Sṭivanasana, Āra. Ela., 1850-1894
Sṭivansana, Āra. Ela., 1850-1894
Stivenson, R. L. (Robert Lʹi͡uis), 1850-1894
Стивенсон, Роберт Луис, 1850-1894
Стивенсон. Р. Л., 1850-1894
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס, 1850-1894
סטיבנסון, רוברט לואס
סטיבנסון, ר״ל, 1850-1894
סטיבנסון, ר. ל.
סטיווענסאן, ראבערט ל.
סטיװענסאן, ראבערט לואיס, 1850-1894
史蒂文森罗伯特·路易斯, 1850-1894
R.L. スティーブンソン, 1850-1894
R.L.スティーヴンソン, 1850-1894
R. L. S. (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894
RLS (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894
S., R. L. (Robert Louis Stevenson), 1850-1894
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, 1850-1894
Stivenson, Robert Lui
Stevenson, Robert L. (Robert Louis), 1850-1894
Writers
San Francisco County (Calif.)
San Francisco
San Francisco City & County (Calif.)
San Francisco City and County (Calif.)
City & County of San Francisco (Calif.)
City and County of San Francisco (Calif.)
Saint Francisco (Calif.)
SAILS ISBN:
9781250100528