The Dynamiter (Pocket classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0862990920 ISBN 13: 9780862990923

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

In the volume new in your hands, the authors have touched upon the ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It icere a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Foster sappeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime ;not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but xoith a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what icas specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape) we proved false to these imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names: and recoiled from our false deities. But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our defenders. Whoever be in the right in this great and confused war of politics; whatever elements of greed, whatever traits of the bully, dishonor both parties in this inhuman contest; your side, your part, is at least pure of doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the breeding woman, of individual pity and public trust. If our society icere the mere kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of its colors )it
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About the Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0862990920
• ISBN 13: 9780862990923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208