Volume 42, Number 10 · June 8, 1995
On the Enchanted Hill
By Richard Holmes
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 1854–1890
edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew
Yale University Press, six volumes, $45.00 each volume
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography
by Frank McLynn
Random House, 567 pp., $30.00
Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny
by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman
Carroll and Graft, 556 pp., $26.00
I started out writing, some thirty years ago, largely because of Stevenson. He was the man who opened the magic door. His wit, his style, his courage, his wanderlust, all enchanted me; and they still do. He made England seem small, and the world look big. He made the dreams of childhood sing with adult possibilities:
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