num_pages: 496
description: The publication of Volumes VII and VIII completes this major edition of the letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, an edition comprising 2,800 letters, almost two-thirds of which have never been in print before.These volumes contain some 560 letters that provide a vivid picture of the last four years of Stevenson's life, from 1890 to 1894. Stevenson spent these years in Samoa, where he had gone to improve his health. We learn a great deal about Stevenson's exile in the early pioneering days during the establishment of the Vailima Plantation; his life as the head of a large household composed of his wife, Fanny, her two children, his mother, native house servants, and estate workers; his hospitality to native Samoan chiefs and to many white visitors; his passionate involvement in local politics; and his literary work--including David Balfour , the sequel to Kidnapped , and Weir of Hermiston , a masterpiece that he died before completing.Ernest Mehew's detailed annotation elucidates the complications of the Samoan background and provides all the information necessary to enjoy Stevenson's letters to the full.
language: English
title: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume Seven: September 1890 - December 1892
titlecomplete: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: Volume Seven: September 1890 - December 1892 (Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson)
series: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
publisher: Yale University Press