Robert Louis Stevenson

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Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of First Editions, Association and Presentation Copies of the Writings of R. Louis StevensonBeach as one of Stevenson's favorites among his writings. The origin and progress of the story from his first conception of it until its final publication in book form may readily be followed in the pages of his delightful correspondence. The idea of it, he says, just shot through me like a bullet in one of my moments of awe, alone in that tragic jungle. The Letters reveal what infinite pains he took in its com position and writing, how often he rewrote or revised large sections of the story, how it haunted his im agination, and with what confidence he felt it to be one of the best things he had ever done. This won derful proof-copy shows with what painstaking care he hovered over each word and toiled over the mi nutest punctuation mark right up to the moment it left his hands in far-away Samoa and went on its way to London to Colvin and its final printing. The little brochure entitled Unique (no. 95) gives a complete descriptive list of the hundred or more changes made by Stevenson in the proof of The Beach. The curious in such things will find it a de lightful occupation to compare them with the cor rected text of the story as it appears in Islana' Nights' Entertainments. Such an exercise will bring them very close to the author's charming personality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.