South Sea Tales

by Robert Louis Stevenson

This collection - the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume - shows Stevenson using 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.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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