Stevenson's fiction is evaluated in the light of the significant
Romantic traditions that have influenced the novel and the romance.
Stevenson is also considered as a serious writer and compared with
Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and other major writers of the period.
Originally published in 1966.
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