Myself and the Other Fellow

<p>He thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates (<em>Treasure Island</em>) and monsters (<em>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</em>). But the short life of writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction. He was both engineer and aesthete Covenanter and atheist dutiful son and reckless lover. His travels illnesses creative struggles volatile relationships and titanic quarrels were the stuff of legend.</p><p>Until now no biography has done justice to the complex brilliant and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable literary creations the least Victorian of Victorian writers. Claire Harman's <em>Myself & the Other Fellow</em> is a fascinating portrait of a man of humor resilience and strongly unconventional views the most authoritative comprehensive and perceptive biography of Robert Louis Stevenson to date.</p>