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In 1879 Robert Louis Stevenson embarked on one of the most romantic, ill-advised but wildly successful quests a literary figure has ever made. Young, unknown, and in failing health, he journeys six-thousand arduous miles to make Fanny Osbourne his wife, despite the fact that she is already married (unhappily), has children, and is ten years older than he. And yet, from their first meeting, he knew instantly she was the only woman for him.
- Sales Rank: #999120 in Books
- Published on: 2014-02-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .80" w x 5.98" l, 1.16 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 360 pages
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A delightful read!
By Antoinette Constable
Review of Stevenson’s Treasure, by Mark Weiderhanders
Such a good read! Probably not be the most professional way to start the review of a new
book on the literary scene, but in this charming novel, we follow with growing pleasure
the unusual relation between a younger man and an older woman from different countries, backgrounds, educations and experience. Will the married lady win her freedom? Will the penniless, unsuccessful writer ever reach success and marry her?
There is a long journey on foot, alone across a hilly part of southern France with an uncooperative donkey. This gives Robert Louis Stevenson an opportunity to tell Modestine, the donkey, about his overprotected childhood, since he suffered from such ‘weak lungs’ –– good description of severe pleurisy–– so that he wasn’t expected to reach adulthood. Stevenson is kind, sensitive, intelligent(to write Dr Jekill and Mr. Hyde he had to be unusually bright!) and a fine observer who keeps writing essays and stories, in spite of the absence of his lack of publishers.
There is a handsome, unfaithful but successful business man who threatens to take their children away from their mother if she continues seeing Stevenson, whom he calls a boy. Fanny, with a heavy heart, tries to distance herself from an adoring Louis, who never fails to find her.
As a businessman’s wife, Fanny is miserable. They are mismatched. She suffers from depression, which she calls brain fever. Her husband is devoted to their children and a good provider. How how can she divorce him to live with Louis, whom she loves, when he can barely support himself, let alone her and her children?
Plenty of travels, letters, hopes and drama fill this lively novel, whose ending, cleverly negative, is a success.
My criticisms are minor. A careful editor should have spotted the use of the a comparison of a furious person to a pressure cooker ready to explode. Pressure cookers were not commercially available for use till well past the eighteen seventies. The pronoun ‘who’ is used in place of ‘whom.’ In the afterword, the editor failed to change, ’principLE characters’ to ‘princiPAL characters,’ since the author clearly spoke of of the main, or major characters.
A satisfying, delightful romantic tale, full of believable characters, realistic period details, humor and lively scenes.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A Great Summer Read.
By George F.
Part of the fun of reading new authors of biographies of somewhat elusive historical characters is the discovery of great stories and great story tellers. Mark Wiederanders tells a great tale of Louis Stevenson, a fascinating character. Though, obviously, greatly fictionalized, the externals are true. Louis's treasure is a fascinating character in her own right. Many, I suspect, will have some difficulty with the story of their relationship, the lengths to which Stevenson went in order to pursue his dream of marriage to his enamorata is told with a great sense of what it is like to chase after a great love.
Some of the writing could have used a bit more editing (hence the four stars rather than five) but I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a wonderful story wonderfully told.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The "before he got famous" story of a celebrated author
By Wesley Hoffmann
(Throughout the review I'm going to abbreviate Robert Louis Stevenson to RLS because homeboy has a long name and I don't have all day to spell it out 45 times in one review.)
Fanny Osbourne is barely keeping it together. One of her children has died and it's landed her in an asylum in France for "melancholia". The doctor there suggests that she goes to an artist colony nearby where she can find therapy in her painting and spending time with her daughter Belle. She gets more than she bargains for when she meets and falls in love with RLS. He isn't the famous author yet, he's more of a scraggly wanderer with a persistent cough due to a lung condition but the attraction between he and Fanny is swift. There is the complication that she is married, has two kids (one, is closer in age to RLS than Fanny is) and lives in America. She eventually leaves France, assuming that this is the end of her romance. But it is not.
RLS travels across the ocean and then across the United States to join Fanny in California. His doctor tells him before he leaves that the trip will almost certainly kill him. It nearly does. (That could be the subtitle of this book: "Almost everything nearly killed him. The fact he lived to write anything is darn near miraculous"). Fanny is shocked and surprised and thrilled and horrified at his arrival. She had been making a real effort to make a clean break from him and try to mentally leave him behind and now his scraggly blonde face is there.
The rest of the book details what happens next! Should they be together? What about the kids? If she divorces her husband she will be penniless and it's not like RLS is rolling in the dough, so what would they do? What will his family think? Will RLS live long enough to figure any of this out with Fanny since he keeps not eating and getting sick?
There's a kind of curdling moment when RLS sees men setting fire and hacking a part a dead whale carcass. Glad that this book wasn't scratch and sniff!
Here is what kind of grinded my gears about this book (and it really doesn't have anything to do with the book or the writing or anything like that).
-Belle is all concerned her daughter is a "trollop". Uuuuhh can we talk about how you and RLS were running around basically in public in France and in California and kind of flaunted it in front of everyone including the kids? If she is a trollop, who do you think she learned it from? Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot.
- I had a hard time cheering for any of these characters. Everyone's complicated and messy and that's fine, but I like to have someone to cheer for. Personal preference.
But it was an interesting, easy read that was well paced. If you have an interest in forbidden romance, art, or RLS I definitely recommend it for you!
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