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"In her new novel, Nancy Horan has recreated a love story that is as unique, passionate, and overwhelmingly powerful as the one between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney depicted so memorably in Loving Frank. Under the Wide and Starry Sky chronicles the unconventional love affair of Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson, author of classics including Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and American divorcee Fanny...
2) The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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English
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"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island,...
Author
Publisher
Kilauea Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Lloyd Osbourne and his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson find themselves in a world of murder and intrigue in Hawaii.Osbourne discovers a coded message, hinting at the survival of his father, Samuel Osbourne, who has been thought long dead. Once deciphered, it leads him and Stevenson on a dangerous adventure involving torture, murder, opium smuggling, a scandal involving the late King Kalakaua, baseball gambling, and uncover assassination threats...
Author
Publisher
[Kilauea Publications]
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 173 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When renowned volcano painter Jules Tavernier is murdered in his Honolulu studio, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, his stepson and writing partner, investigate their friend's death. [They] are assisted by Hawaiian policeman David Naho'olewa, and later, the King himself, to expose corrupt doctors in league with the gangs, and ultimately discover the long-lost treasure of Kamehameha the Great." -- cover, page [4]
Author
Publisher
Kilauea Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1893, Honolulu. Queen Liluokalani has been deposed and is under house arrest. Set against the backdrop of the overthrow of the Queen, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne investigate a series of decapitations and the theft of the crown jewels.
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