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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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The winner of Elle magazine's Grand Prize for 1994 has sold nearly a quarter million copies in Lapierre's native France and is now available in an English translation. Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson's claim to fame has been her marriage to Robert Louis Stevenson. Here, Lapierre shows her as more Johnson than Boswell. The derringer-toting, cigarette-smoking Fanny captivated men with her dark skin and gypsy clothing. A lover of vagabonds and dreamers, she was a courageous, passionate, devoted blend of Annie Oakley and Hester Prynne who crossed the Isthmus of Panama with her young daughter, Belle, to follow her first husband to the Nevada gold mines. Later, she would defy Victorian standards by moving to France with her three children to study art. There she met and married Stevenson with whom she trekked the continents in search of a climate to safeguard his fragile health. For Stevenson, Fanny was adventure. For Fanny, Stevenson was all artistry. Lapierre offers a superbly passionate rendition of truth that flows with the pace of fine fiction. All dialogue in the book was taken directly from Robert and Fanny's essays and letters, and where necessary, Lapierre injects first-person clarification in a manner that is enlightening rather than intrusive. A captivating blend of scholarship and style. Patricia Hassler
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1857024125
- ISBN 13 9781857024128
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages572
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Fanny Stevenson: Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma
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ISBN 10: 1857024125
ISBN 13: 9781857024128
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Paperback. Condition: near Very Good. First printing of this edition. First printing of this trade paperback edition. Translated from the French by Carol Cosman. Pp 556 + 8pp b&w photographs. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers. Light creases showing on the lower wrapper. Seller Inventory # 102365
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Paperback. Condition: Used; Acceptable. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. The book is perfectly readable and fit for use, although it shows signs of previous ownership. The spine is likely creased and the cover scuffed or slightly torn. Textbooks will typically have an amount of underlining and/or highlighting, as well as notes. If this book is over 5 years old, then please expect the pages to be yellowing or to have age spots. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner. Seller Inventory # CHL10273660
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FANNY STEVENSON : Muse, Adventuress & Romantic Enigma
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Soft Cover. Condition: Good +. 556pp. Softback, G+, reading crease in spine, b&w photos, Biography of Fanny Stevenson, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, Seller Inventory # w120913538
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Condition: Very Good. 1996. Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KSS0001013
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Fanny Stevenson: A Romance Destiny: Muse, Adventuress and Romantic Enigma
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