The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Illustrated by William. Hole and W. L. Metcalf (HQ288)

Published 1892: First Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 427 + very clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled endpapers and edges, previous owners bookplate on inner cover and stamped name on the following page, separation showing on inner hinges could be readdressed with some glue, text block not affected. Boards are rubbed and stained with time and bumped on the corners and frayed and torn along the spine back as shown in images but remain intact. (HQ288)

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The Wrecker is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery.It revolves around the abandoned wreck of the Flying Scud at Midway Island.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.

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