The Wrecker
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Description
Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne set The Wrecker's prologue in the Marquesas Islands. It is a winter afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French port of entry. Trade winds blow strong and squally over the beach. A fifty-ton French schooner of war rolls at her moorings. Tropic rain has fallen hard earlier that day. Torrents still streak the green mountain above town.
Winter there, the narrator notes, is only a name. Rain brings no refreshment to the islanders. Convict gardeners work on at the residency garden. Everyone else sleeps through the heavy afternoon. Stevenson builds an indolent, watchful South Seas atmosphere. Mystery and wrecking schemes grow naturally from such colonial ports.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Robert Louis Stevenson |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 758 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |