Olalla
‘Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?’Stevenson’s chilling Victorian gothic novella about decaying aristocracy, vampirism and tormented love. Set in the remote mountains of Spain. [ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) ]Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday,...
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‘Is it me you love, friend? or the race that made me?’Stevenson’s chilling Victorian gothic novella about decaying aristocracy, vampirism and tormented love. Set in the remote mountains of Spain. [ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) ]Little Black Classics celebrates Penguin’s 80th birthday, introducing 80 works from the classics.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141397962 (0141397969)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 57
Edition language: English
Series: Little Black Classics (#19)
Olalla was my first venture into the literary works of Robert Louis Stevenson and it was not a very good one. I have a lot of friends who keep telling me to get to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde so I had high expectations of this one, but I don't know. I don't think the story was very good, or that much happ...
I think I would have enjoyed this better if the narrator wasn't such a snob. He really, really is a snob. One of those British long nosed, look down on everyone types. Quite frankly, Poe does this type of thing much better.
Robert Louis Stevenston was a 19th Century Scottish writer, most famous for Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Olalla is an early short story about a young English soldier recovering in the Spanish mountains from his war wounds."And if they knew you were the handsomest and the most pleasant ...
Olalla is an engaging, well-written work of Gothic horror. We are introduced to a sympathetic narrator, a soldier recovering from a wound, and the exotic setting where he seeks to recover. . Namely, a dilapidated castle set against the Spanish mountains. There, we meet the equally decaying family ...
I've never heard of this story before and randomly found the audiobook (great way to get reading done while walking the dog). I'm glad I found it. Another story from R.L.S. and this time with a little vampire action.
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