{"product_id":"the-beach-of-falesa-isbn-9780976140719","title":"The Beach of Falesa","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"White men die very suddenly in Falesá.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally censored by its British publisher, \u003ci\u003eThe Beach at Falesá\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\"I wanted them all, even those I'd already read.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Ron Rosenbaum, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Small wonders.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Out London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e[F]irst-rate…astutely selected and attractively packaged…indisputably great works.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Adam Begley, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I’ve always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But it’s the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publisher’s fine 'Art of the Novella' series.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumed—tiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—KQED (NPR San Francisco)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1850, the son of a prominent  engineer famous for building lighthouses. Although expected to continue the family  profession, Stevenson’s earliest interests were literary. He studied law and was  admitted to the bar but never practiced. Suffering from lifelong respiratory illness,  he traveled extensively in search of a beneficial climate, living in Switzerland,  the United States, and the Polynesian Islands. His first book was a travel book about  a French canoe trip, but he soon branched out into poetry and fiction, including  his massively popular children’s adventures \u003ci\u003eKidnapped\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Treasure Island\u003c\/i\u003e, as well  as more subtle and morally ambiguous work such as his classic science fiction \u003ci\u003eThe  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in Samoa in 1894.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302609637605,"sku":"NP9780976140719","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780976140719.jpg?v=1742928324","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-beach-of-falesa-isbn-9780976140719","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}