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The Beach of Falesa|Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

Originally censored by its British publisher, The Beach at Fales is a scathing critique of colonialism and economic imperialism that bravely takes on many of the 19th Century' s strongest taboos: miscegenation, imperialism, and economic exploitation. It does so with a story that features a surprising and beguiling romance between an adventurous British trader and a young island girl, against a background of increasing-and mysterious-hostility. Are the native islanders plotting against the couple, or is it the other white traders? The result is a denouement that is astonishing in its violence. Told in the unadorned voice of the trader, it is a story that deftly combines the form of the exotic adventure yarn with the moral and psychological questing of great fiction

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Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781983402265
  • ISBN-10: 1983402265
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: December 2017
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.09 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.15 pounds
  • Page Count: 42

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