Store besparelser
Hurtig levering
Gemte
Log ind
0
Kurv
Kurv
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
- the tempestuous of love story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny
Engelsk Paperback
Se mere i:
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
- the tempestuous of love story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife Fanny
Engelsk Paperback

172 kr
Tilføj til kurv
Sikker betaling
6 - 8 hverdage

Om denne bog

''FABULOUS'' The Times
''FASCINATING'' New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


At the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and nanny in tow. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her brood repair to a quiet artists'' colony in France where she can recuperate. There she meets Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who is instantly smitten with the earthy, independent, and opinionated belle Americaine.

A woman ahead of her time, Fanny does not immediately take to the young lawyer who longs to devote his life to literature rather than the law - and who would eventually write such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson''s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair-marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness that spans decades as they travel the world, following their art and their dreams.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9781444778434
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1444778439
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2014
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
131mm
Højde:
198mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2014
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
Kategori sammenhænge