A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but w...
Chapters (14)
- A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY EIGHT YEARS OF TROUBLE IN SAMOA by Robert Louis Stevenson
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE
- CHAPTER II—THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: FOREIGN
- CHAPTER III—THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887
- CHAPTER IV—BRANDEIS
- CHAPTER V—THE BATTLE OF MATAUTU
- CHAPTER VI—LAST EXPLOITS OF BECKER
- CHAPTER VII—THE SAMOAN CAMPS
- CHAPTER VIII—AFFAIRS OF LAULII AND FANGALII
- CHAPTER IX—“FUROR CONSULARIS”
- CHAPTER X—THE HURRICANE
- CHAPTER XI—LAUPEPA AND MATAAFA
- FOOTNOTES
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