Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1888 is the tribute to his professor of engineering. Stevenson studied under Jenkin at Edinburgh University. The Memoir discusses Jenkin's ancestry, personal life, and career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781531208783
Publisher:	Dossier Press
Publication date:	02/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	549 KB

About the Author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875