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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 05 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Recorded Books classics library.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Robert Ian Mackenzie. |
| Summary |
The literary world was shocked when in 1890, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently in Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction. In stories such as 'The Beach of Falesa', 'The Bottle Imp', and 'The Isle of Voices' Stevenson shows himself to be virtuoso of narrative styles. This is the first collection to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume and in it Stevenson emerges as a witness to the cross-cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism and to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Oceania -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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South Pacific Ocean -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Mackenzie, Robert Ian. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781501915895 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1501915894 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13522632 |
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