The Hair Trunk or the Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1846220505 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The extensive and illustrated annotations are fascinating in themselves, not least for the references to the contemporary late-Victorian scene.. One of their number knows of "a real, glowing, gaudy, old-high treasure" - gold and jewels in a trunk in a family castle in the Scottish Highlands, theirs for the stealing, and Robert Louis Stevenson began writing the comic novel The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza in April or May 1877, when he was twenty-six, and left it unfinished - after 30,000 words, in nine chapters - two years later. Swearingen from Stevenson's unpublished manuscript (now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California), this edition reveals glimpses of the author's developing literary skills and his complex and often madcap personal temperament. Here - they reason - work and money, dreary offices and dreary jobs, will not be known or needed. But capital is required to start even an Ideal Commonwealth. Previously published only in a French translation, it now takes
A graduate of the University of California-Berkeley and of Yale University, after a first career teaching Victorian Literature, Stevenson, and technical writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California-Davis, he went on to spend more than twenty years in information de
Swearingen is best known for his authoritative 'The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide' (1980); the Stevenson entry in the 'Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' (2000); a comprehensive review of scholarship on Stevenson, including biographies and editions, published in 'Dickens Studies Annual' (2005-2006); and as the discoverer of Stevenson's first published work of fiction, a long short story called "An Old Song", published anonymously in 1877. . A graduate of the University of California-Berkeley and of Yale University, after a first career teaching Victorian Literature, Stevenson, and technical writing at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of California-Davis, he went on to spend more than twenty years in information design for a major electronic measurement company in Northern California. He is currently finishing a full-length biography, 'Robert Louis Stevenson: Spirit of Ad