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St. Ives
Robert Louis Stevenson
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‘My dear friends,’ I said—‘for you must allow me to call you that, who have no others within so many hundred leagues—perhaps you will think me fanciful and sentimental; and perhaps indeed I am; but there is one service that I would beg of you before all others. You see me set here on the top of this rock in the midst of your city. Even with what liberty I have, I have the opportunity to see a myriad roofs, and I dare to say, thirty leagues of sea and land. All this hostile! Under all these roofs my enemies dwell; wherever I see the smoke of a house rising, I must tell myself that some one sits before the chimney and r. . . Read More
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I would call it a 19th century bathtub book (def: book suitable for reading in the bathtub). Writing is lovely, characterizations are disarming, storyline is farfetched. Its near-fatal drawback: RLS died before finishing it and the publisher gave it to Mr. Quiller-Couch to wrap up based on Stevenson
A truly enjoyable tale of a French prisoner of war who escapes Edinburgh Castle and has multiple adventures as he attempts to make his way back to his beloved Flora. Stevenson died before he could complete the novel and a Quiller-Couch wrote an ending based on Stevenson's plans. Unfortunately Quille
Gern wird gestritten, ob nun DIE HERREN VON HERMISTON (WEIR OF HERMISTON: AN UNFINISHED ROMANCE; erschienen 1896) oder doch ST. IVES (ST. IVES: BEING THE ADVENTURES OF A FRENCH PRISONER IN ENGLAND; erschienen 1898) der allerletzte Roman des großen schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson
Enjoyable enough but far from the exciting yarns I have previously read by RLS...the tale of a Napoleonic prisoner of war who turns fugitive but for whom love and inheritance are also on the horizon.
The version I read was neither the unfinished one not the Quiller-Couch family authorised finished on
I've always maintained a coldly mechanical willingness to stop reading a book whenever the time comes….in St. Ives, the time comes at Chapter XXXI.
Stevenson died after writing XXX chapters of St. Ives, and a respected contemporary, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, wrote the remaining VI chapters fro