Unconventional love story between literary giants.
This book is a captivating and passionate account of the unconventional love affair between Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne. It offers a unique glimpse into the lives of these literary giants and their tumultuous relationship, spanning two decades and the world. The author, Nancy Horan, skillfully weaves together historical facts and fiction, creating a compelling narrative that will keep readers enthralled until the very last page.
ISBN: 9781444778427
Authors:
Nancy Horan
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Fiction
Date of Publication: 2014-02-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.61
(rated by 18339 readers)
Description
The passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and a nanny in tow. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her brood repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. There she meets Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who is instantly smitten with the earthy, independent and opinionated belle Americaine.A woman ahead of her time, Fanny does not immediately take to the young lawyer who longs to devote his life to literature, and who would eventually write such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms. The two begin a fierce love affair, marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness, which spans decades as they travel the world for the sake of his health. Eventually they settled in Samoa, where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried underneath the epitaph:Under the wide and starry sky,Dig the grave and let me lie.Glad did I live and gladly die,And I laid me down with a will.This be the verse you grave for me:Here he lies where he longed to be;Home is the sailor, home from sea,And the hunter home from the hill.(Requiem, Robert Louis Stevenson)
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