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Prince Otto / Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited by Robert P. Irvine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, author.
- Series:
- New Edinburgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
- New Edinburgh edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson Prince Otto
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (liv, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fast-moving tale of passion and politics. In Prince Otto, first published in serial form in 1885, Stevenson uses his genius for adventure and romance to explore some decidedly grown-up themes. The tiny German state of Grünewald seems to be a principality of the world of fairy-tale. But its ruler is beset in public by the forces of modern politics, and troubled in private by an unhappy marriage. Ill-prepared to deal with either, Otto is forced to choose between them. Key Features: * This first fully edited edition of the novel will provoke readers to think again about the scope and purpose of Stevenson's brilliant story-telling * Explores the most modern of themes, the moral compromises required by marriage: a romance in which the marriage of the hero and the heroine is not the happy conclusion of the plot, but the problem that the plot has to resolve * A fascinating text for what it tells us about Stevenson's goals and aspirations at this crucial stage of his career, and about the changing nature of the novel in English at the end of the nineteenth-century.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by the General Editors
- List of Abbreviations
- Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
- Introduction
- PRINCE OTTO
- Dedication
- Book I. Prince Errant
- Book II. Of Love and Politics
- Book III. Fortunate Misfortune
- Bibliographical Postscript
- Appendices
- Note on the Text
- Emendation List
- End-of-Line Hyphens
- Explanatory Notes
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-5317-1
- 0-19-186784-5
- 0-7486-4524-1
- OCLC:
- 1301549333
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