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The Lantern Bearer: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson Topics for Discussion
1. In your opinion, what are the strengths of Wood's biography of Stevenson?
2. Even as a grown man, English prime minister Winston Churchill used to read Stevenson's Treasure Island once a year.
What do you think this says about Churchill? About Stevenson?
3. Robert Louis Stevenson became a fully qualified lawyer but never practiced. Why not?
4. A master of several prose forms, Stevenson also wrote verse all of his life but never considered himself more than an amateur as a poet. How do the requirements for good prose and good poetry differ?
5. How did his long years of invalidism affect Stevenson as a writer?
6. What qualities did Fanny Stevenson possess to make her marriage successful?
7. A modern writer of thrillers, Stephen King, has admitted that he has difficulty creating believable women....
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