Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

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Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

Reveals the author's life through historical photographs and narratives devoted to his literary career, adventurous travels, and major accomplishments.

This autobiography of Arthur Conan Doyle describes the varied aspects of his professional life as a doctor, sportsman, adventurer, political campaigner and author. It recounts the many true adventures that befell him and his relationship with such figures as Oscar Wilde, Kipling and Arthur Balfour.

Follows Stevenson's travels from Scotland to America to the islands of the Pacific and discusses the influence of these journeys on his writings (view table of contents)

A fascinating biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man who sought to live up the Victorian ideal of manhood and who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes. (view table of contents)

Best known for his fiction writing, Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde being among his most famous, the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and the author of travel books. Stevenson's first major work was An Inland Voyage (1878), an account of the journey he made by canoe from Antwerp to northern France. The companion work to this, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), is recognised as a classic of the travel-writing genre. In this seminal compilation, June Skinner Sawyers has brought together a varied selection of RLS's best travel writings. They take the reader around the world, shadowing his life as his ill health took him from Scotland to England, to Europe and on to America and finally across the Pacific to Samoa where he died. A table of contents is attached to this AIS

Product Description: Variously seen as a writer of adventure stories for the young, a skilled essayist, a poet, a frail genius fated to die young, Robert Louis Stephenson was all of these and more. In Ian Bell's Dreams of Exile readers not only gain a unique insight into the man and the writer, but his life, his influences and, of course, his legacy...read more

Product Description: Dedicated for nearly thirty years to making literature and its creators more accessible and intriguing to researchers, the series presents signed, authoritative biographical and critical essays on writers from all eras and genres...read more

Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

Product Description: George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a writer whose style, ideas, person, and genres of work defy quick analysis and simple interpretation. His books, from their beginnings in the mid 1850s to this present day, have always elicited strong and extremely varied responses...read more

Traces the life of the 19th century Scottish writer, co surveys the development influence on modern literature

'A revealing look into the life, spiritual journey, and writings of the popular yet controversial 19th-century novelist, George MacDonald. Michael Phillips unveils the life and times of his literary mentor in this portrait of a great writer of faith, setin the Scottish land he loved'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Scotland's beloved storytellerGeorge MacDonald, nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to twentieth century Christians by C.S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald’s Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion...read more

Product Description: C. S. Lewis once remarked that his debt to George MacDonald's writings was "almost as great as one man can owe to another . . . I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself" Born in Scotland in 1824, MacDonald was educated at King's College in Aberdeen and Highbury Seminary in London...read more

An indispensable work of reference to the life, times, and literary output of the great Victorian.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

Product Description: Gavin Bell, for many years an admirer of Stevenson and his work, retraces Stevenson's passage through the more remote communities of French Polynesia, Hawaii, Kiribati and Samoa. On his tour through Polynesia and Micronesia he finds haunting echoes of a fading culture which enchanted Stevenson and in Hawaii finds a man who possesses one of the finest private Stevenson collections...read more