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The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In these stories, as in his work generally, Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles: his Pacific fiction includes the domestic realism of 'The Beach at Falesé, the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: South Sea Tales
• Author: Robert Stevenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780199536085
• ISBN: 0199536082
• ID: 04035201
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 238 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 128 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2008

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