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The romance ties precisely in the freeing of two spirits from these court intrigues
RLS’s novel, Prince Otto, was published in October 1885. The following refers to two reviews of it – one of them by Henley (in the Athenaeum of 21 November) which to the writer’s displeasure had been pruned by the editor … Continue reading
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 