{"product_id":"storyteller-6","title":"Storyteller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest of 2025 Lists: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Top 10 • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEconomist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Top 10 • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Top 25 • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Notable Works of Nonfiction • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, “Ultimate Best Books” • \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorld Today Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Top 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Damrosch brings to Stevenson’s life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Club\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e. . . . [An] excellent book.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) is famed for \u003ci\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKidnapped\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStrange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,\u003c\/i\u003e but he published many other novels and stories before his death at forty-four. Despite lifelong ill health, he had immense vitality; Mark Twain said his eyes burned with “smoldering rich fire.” Born in Edinburgh to a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson set many stories in Scotland but sought travel and adventure in a life as romantic as his novels. “I loved a ship,” he wrote, “as a man loves burgundy or daybreak.” The adventures were shared with his free-spirited American wife, Fanny, with whom he moved to the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamoan friends named Stevenson “Storyteller.” Reading, he said, “should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.” His own books have been translated into dozens of languages. Jorge Luis Borges called his stories “one of the forms of happiness,” and other modernist masters as various as Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino have paid tribute to his greatness as a literary artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStoryteller,\u003c\/i\u003e Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer’s letters in his many voices and moods—playful, imaginative, at times tragic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54465540981080,"sku":"9780300268621","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780300268621.jpg?v=1778734832","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/storyteller-6","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}