The Beach Of Falesa - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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ISBN 10: 116922007X ISBN 13: 9781169220072

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2010

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British, essayist, novelist and poet Stevenson sparkled for his novels of exploration and exciting journeys. He contributed many essays, tales and fantasies to various journals and magazines. All his works show consistency of style that is assiduously graceful.

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Long story by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published as "Uma" in 1892 and collected in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893). An adventure romance fused with realism, it depicts a man's struggle to maintain his decency in the face of uncivilized hostility. John Wiltshire, the story's narrator and protagonist, is a white trader on the exotic island of Falesa in the South Seas. He is befriended by Case, a fellow trader who persuades him to marry the native Uma. When Wiltshire does so, the natives ostracize the couple. Gradually Wiltshire learns that Case has subdued the natives by manipulating their fears of the supernatural. Wiltshire exposes Case as a fraud and kills him in self-defense. -- The Merriam-Webster Encylopedia of Literature

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