num_pages: 478
description: The frail and indomitable figure of Robert Louis Stevenson rises from these pages vivid and intensely alive. But here too are a rich cast of Stevenson's contemporaries including his puzzled Victorian parents; the poetically beautiful Fanny Sitwell; Fanny Osborne, the American divorcee whom he married; Henry James; Henry Adams; William Ernest Henley and others.This biography includes a comprehensive bibliography as well as an index to Stevenson's works.“This book is by all odds the best biography of Robert Louis Stevenson yet to have appeared. No one has told the fascinating story of Stevenson's life half so well as Mr. Furnas. No one has painted so vivid a full-length portrait of the man and his career. No one has written with so much new and enlightening material at his disposal. Or followed in every absorbing detail the shifts in Stevenson's reputation.” - John Mason Brown, Saturday Review of Literature
title: Voyage to Windward
titlecomplete: Voyage to Windward
characters: Robert Louis Stevenson
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 9
places: Samoa, Vailima
publisher: West Richard