Body Snatcher

Jamestown

ISBN 10: 0890612560 ISBN 13: 9780890612569

Publisher: Jamestown Publishers,U.S., 1982

Synopsis

This atmospheric evocation of early nineteenth century Edinburgh is made all the more thrilling by the knowledge that it is a fictional account of a series of real murders and the astonishing, grisly career of Burke and Hare, men who killed people in order to provide corpses for dissection in anatomy lectures.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

About this edition

• Publisher: Jamestown Publishers,U.S.
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0890612560
• ISBN 13: 9780890612569
• Binding: Pamphlet
• Number of pages: 48