The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson

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Résumé :
'The Wrecker' is an adventurous and detective mysterious novel co-written by R. L. Stevenson with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne in 1892. It is knitted around the left wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway island. It covers wide locations in Paris, Scotland, Honolulu, San Francisco, the Marshall Islands, Midway Island and Sydney in Australia. The story also depicts change of an artist in to a businessman. This story tells of the adventures of Loudon Dodd. Dodd is an American whose wish to be an artist dissatisfies his business-minded father. It is a extending, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery. It turns around the deserted wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island. Thus this novel tells the life of Dodd, from his days as a failed art student in Paris, to his business ventures with Jim Pinkerton in San Francisco, to the long complex case of the shipwrecked Flying Scud whose mystery dominates the second half of the book and reveals a horrible and bloody tragedy at sea.

Biographie:
This collection brings together a wide range of writers whose stories helped shape the enduring tradition of pirate adventure fiction. Among them are Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the classic Treasure Island...

Sommaire:
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer born on November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He became renowned for his diverse body of work, which includes novels, essays, poetry, and travel writing. Some of his most celebrated works are Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child s Garden of Verses. Stevenson was educated at the University of Edinburgh and attended both the Edinburgh Academy Senior School and Edinburgh Law School. Although initially studying law, he pursued a career in writing, drawing inspiration from authors such as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Guy de Maupassant. He married Fanny Stevenson in 1880, and they lived together until his death in 1894. Stevenson s writing often explored themes of adventure, morality, and the duality of human nature, particularly evident in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He spent the latter part of his life in Samoa, where he passed away on December 3, 1894, at the age of 44. His works have left a lasting impact on literature, influencing generations of writers and readers....