num_pages: 544
description: He thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates ( Treasure Island ) and monsters ( The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ). But the short life of writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction. He was both engineer and aesthete, Covenanter and atheist, dutiful son and reckless lover. His travels, illnesses, creative struggles, volatile relationships, and titanic quarrels were the stuff of legend. Until now, no biography has done justice to the complex, brilliant, and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable literary creations, the least "Victorian" of Victorian writers. Claire Harman's Myself &amp; the Other Fellow is a fascinating portrait of a man of humor, resilience, and strongly unconventional views, the most authoritative, comprehensive, and perceptive biography of Robert Louis Stevenson to date.
language: English
title: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
titlecomplete: Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
characters: Jane Whyte Balfour, Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin, Graham Balfour, William Archer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, Edmund William Gosse, Charles Baxter, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, William Ernest Henley, Fanny Stevenson, George William Balfour, Alison Cunningham
genres: Historical, Biography, Nonfiction, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 104
publisher: Harper Perennial