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South Sea tales
- Title
- South Sea tales / Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited with an introduction by Roslyn Jolly.
- Author
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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- Additional Authors
- Jolly, Roslyn.
- Description
- xlii, 289 pages : map; 19 cm.
- Summary
- 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 of Falesa', the folktale plots of 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices', and the modernist blending of naturalism and symbolism in The Ebb-Tide. But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member.
- In this collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world.
- Series Statement
- World's classics
- Uniform Title
- World's classics.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- A Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Beach of Falesa -- The Bottle Imp -- The Isle of Voices -- The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette -- The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse -- Something in It.
- ISBN
- 0192824392 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95052207
- OCLC
- 33968311
- ocm33968311
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries