The Wrecker
LiteratureFictionGenre Fiction

The Wrecker

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher
Independently Published
Pages
362
Language
English
Published
1999

Overview

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson.The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.The story is an "expanding episodic adventure story, a cheeky-mannered comedy and a kind of detective mystery," according to Roderick Watson. It revolves around the abandoned Flying Scud shipwreck in Midway Atoll. The clues in a stamp collection are used to locate the missing crew and solve the mystery. Only in the last chapter different elements of the story are linked. Stevenson described it as a "South Sea thread" regarding "a very strange and flawed plan that was accepted with open eyes for what appeared to be compensatory opportunities offered." The book sold well but the reviews were mixed, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850-Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, December 3, 1894) was a British novelist, poet, and essayist. His legacy is a vast work that includes travel chronicles,

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