
The Ebb-Tide
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Barnaby Edwards
Emma, I have scratched out the beginning to my father, for I think I can write more easily to you. This is my last farewell to all, the last you will ever hear or see of an unworthy friend and son. I have failed in life; I am quite broken down and disgraced. I pass under a false name; you will have to tell my father that with all your kindness. It is my own fault. -- with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.
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Editorial reviews
The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette is one of three collaborative literary efforts between Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne. Together the two men traveled the South Seas, so it only makes sense that they would put their heads together to write a novel that begins in Tahiti.
Stage, screen, and audio actor Barnaby Edwards voices the sailors and champagne merchants who make up this entertaining tale that takes its protagonists across the Pacific. The wonderful turn-of-the-century seafaring slang is delightful to hear, especially when Edwards intones a Cockney beggar who spends much of his time on the ocean extremely intoxicated.
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An interesting book
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Momentum builds as story proceeds. Opening chapter seems a bit sluggish compared to what comes later; the second half, the quartet, is crackling. Hang in there, stick with it.
Chapter 7 is a masterpiece from beginning to end: the island, the lagoon, Atwater.
The narrator does a dexterous job handling 5 different voices, and he too gets better as the story goes along. The American accent of Captain Davis sometimes seems a bit off, but 4 British voices are distinct and Atwater is so vivid he seems like another actor altogether, but isn’t. Very good job.
Gets better as it goes along, w truly great passages
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Another intriguing story from RLS!
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I don’t know if Zangwill’s defense helped the book’s reception 128 years ago. But it went a long way to helping me understand the otherwise unfocused sense of sheer enjoyment this story gave me, augmented by Barnaby Edwards’ fine performance.
No Need to Write a Review; It’s in the Book.
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Good Adventure; confusing psychology
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Good story poor reading
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