BEACH OF FALESA, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Stevenson’s tale of a South Sea Islands trader takes on many
nineteenth-century taboos: miscegenation, racism, and colonialism.
A precursor to the work of Joseph Conrad, the story deftly combines
an exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing
of great fiction.

　　Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in
1850, the son of a prominent engineer famous for building
lighthouses. Although expected to continue the family profession,
Stevenson’s earliest interests were literary. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar but never practiced. Suffering from
lifelong respiratory illness, he traveled extensively in search of
a beneficial climate, living in Switzerland, the United States, and
the Polynesian Islands. His first book was a travel book about a
French canoe trip, but he soon branched out into poetry and
fiction, including his massively popular children’s adventures
Kidnapped and Treasure Island, as well as more subtle
and morally ambiguous work such as his classic science fiction
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He died in
Samoa in 1894.

　　”Small wonders”
　　–Time Out London
　　”I wanted them all, even those I’d already read.”
　　–Ron Rosenbaum, The New York Observer