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I'm probably in a minority of viewers, but I particularly enjoy the bios on authors: you've done some of my favorites; Poe, Lovecraft, Orwell, Asimov, and now Robert Louis Stevenson. Thanks so much for these!
I love that he finished his life in Samoa and fell in love with the people and the country. The fact he stood up for native Samoans in his critique of the colonial powers in "A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" is testament to his character as a humanist.
@Neal Palmer It is scary - but Alan Horowitz was using the word 'bloody' in its British-slang sense - meaning "extremely"; i.e., "It's extremely brilliant".
I had heard of the writer before, but up until I visited his house in Samoa, I had never actually read any of his books. Bought a few when there and walked up to his grave to read on beautiful days. Thanks for the memories. Robert Louis. Thanks for the video, Simon.
RLS is fondly remembered in Hawaii as being a dear friend of the Cleghorns, who were part of the Hawaii royal family (the patriarch of the clan in Hawaii, Archibald Cleghorn, was also of Scottish descent). He spent quite a bit of time with Hawaii’s last crown princess, Victoria Ka’iulani, and one of his poems about her passing became the lyrics of a song many youth in Hawaii still learn and sing today.
Forth from her land to mine she goes The island maid, the island rose Light of heart and bright of face The daughter of a double race Her islands here, in southern sun Shall mourn their Ka’iulani gone. 💔
I got to visit 17 Heriot Row when I visited Edinburgh two years ago and had tea with the current owners. It was amazing. I learned so much about Robert Louis Stevenson there and found in him a kindred spirit. Without realizing it, I found that I somehow traced his life backwards through geography. My earliest memories are of Monterey, California where I lived with I was 4 and 5. When I was 17 I went to Hawai'i, my first vacation. Stevenson had spent some time there before moving on to Samoa (in fact, the picture used in this video is of his time in Hawai'i. He's sitting beside Queen Lili'uokalani, the last ruler of Hawai'i, and beside her is her brother and predecessor, King Kalakaua). Then, of course, when I was 30 I took myself to Scotland, my first time doing anything by myself, my dream trip. I found RLS everywhere starting with his memorial stone in the Princes Street Gardens. Going to his house was one of the definite highlights of my trip. I spent hours there and could have spent days. Besides all I've said, I've wanted to be an author since I was 7 and have been obsessed with pirates since not long after that, so naturally, I'm a fan.
I loved his Poems too.... I remember i had to memorize one of his poems in 5 grade in order to participate in Elocution... Good ol days. Made me fall in love with poetry.
On the *Monterey Peninsula is a super expensive private high school named for RLS. How expensive?......their home golf course for the golf team is Pebble Beach. Yeah, THAT Pebble Beach. *Monterey California has one "r", Monterrey Mexico has two. Spaniards named both thusly.
Please do Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa , Robert Emmett, Constance Markievicz, Victor Hugo, Benjamin Tallmidge, John Graves Simcoe, John André, Stan Lee, Arthur Sullivan, Buddy Holly, Michael Farraday, Marita Lorenz
I was never a "fiction" person really, not even as a kid. Couldn't be arsed with "fantasy" much, yawn Zzzzzz LOL But being assigned to read Treasure Island for school made such an impact on me that I would find myself drawing maps on paper trying to imagine what the rest of the fictional world looked like. Which is a testament for how good of a writer the guy really was, I think.
In "An Apology for Idlers" (1877) Stevenson demonstrates to have an immense maturity and high emotional intelligence in order to make a critique of the environment around him at such early age. His words are poignant, aggressive (as is should be) and still relevant to this day. Please have in mind he wrote that BEFORE his later fiction successes, and he also wrote it BEFORE engaging in real-life adventures travelling in France and crossing USA.
My english prof asked us to send her a video of Stevenson to study. The others sent her 2 minutes videos. I sent her this. I have to learn everything perfectly (with a british accent too, I'm italian) for the 5th of april (it's the 31st of march). Wish me luck
RLS stayed quite awhile in Monterey Ca. (One R in Monterey) he was Unwell and my GGGrandmother Simineau cared for him since they had a restaurant in Monterey. They became good friends. Good video. Thanks.
When I was in grade school, we have to learn a number of his poems from his book called A Child's Garden of verses. Some I remember to this day. Also, I read that he was a master at a certain instrument and wrote hundreds of pieces for it. So I recommend the short story "The Bottle Imp" and a movie called "The Wrong Box" that was based on one of his joke novels.
I'm watching all the novelist episodes. As an inspiring novelist, on the brink of something good. These writers lives. I find somethings similar to my life thus far and the similar struggles they had. I feel as though I have more friends with like minds than before thanks everybody at Biographics
The videogames industry is DESPERATELY in need of good writers. I don't know how much "books" still work in this day and age. For me personally, I can't read anything, I can't simply be arsed with being sitting focusing on one single task (phisically impossible) But when I think about a good vehicle that makes use of stories, I see videogames, one of the last "frontiers" of self expression still available
Even though care has to be put on the delivery. No videogame player would be arsed to sit through paragraphs of text, that kind of stuff is of no use and would cause the opposite effect you wanted. Plot elements and story being told as you move around the game, and not in still text boxes. Daggerfall/Skyrim is on the verge of excess (even though they make the excessive portion completely Optional to the player, and not required for progress) DeusEx/Thief series would be good examples of good flow. Metal Gear Solid series too, to some extent.
Stevenson part of the great Scottish Renaissance, where nearly every heavyweight intellectual in 19th century England was of Scottish descent. Not bad for a people who just a century before were viewed as inferior.
Stevenson's 'SPY GLASS HILL' (Treasure Island) is likely named after 'Sugarloaf Hill' located on the Peter Michael Vineyard/Estate in Knight's Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA. Stevenson's Best Man at his San Francisco wedding (1880) was Virgil Williams, who recommended to the newly married Stevensons their 'Honeymoon' camping location located on the slopes of Mt Saint Helena (MSH), north of Calistoga, CA. From this period, arose Stevenson's book: 'The Silverado Squatters'. Williams lived in Knight's Valley partly during the year on the upper slopes (of MSH) above Knight's Valley and Stevenson was said to have called on Williams at his cabin there - but first having to ride within sight of Sugarloaf Hill.
Alright, settle down people, nothing to see here, it was just one of the narrators poorly veiled standard political slurs - calling poor, dead and defenseless mrs Cunningham "commie" ...
The Custodian Helmet is the headgear traditionally worn by male police constables and sergeants while on foot patrol in England and Wales. Officers of all ranks in most forces are also issued a flat, peaked cap that is worn on mobile patrol in a vehicle. Ranks above sergeant wear the peaked cap only. However, some Inspectors wear the Custodian Helmet, but with two silver bands around the base (to match the two pips worn as rank insignia) to denote their position. Claimed by some sources to have been based on the spiked pickelhaube worn by the Prussian Army, it was first adopted by the London Metropolitan Police in 1863 to replace the "stovepipe" top hat worn since 1829. In 1863, the Metropolitan Police replaced the previous uniform of white trousers, swallow-tailed coat and top hat in favour of very dark blue trousers, a more modern button up tunic and the early type of helmet which had an upturned brim at the front and a raised spine at the back, running from the bottom to the top of the helmet, which became known as the "cockscomb".
I live in Edinburgh in the village of Colinton so you might know the thing about that..... He wrote his books in the church yard of Colinton parish church with his dog And..... I LIVE IN THAT VILLAGE 👌👌👌👌👌
I grew up near the beach that looks out on what is now Point Lobos National park, which (according to local legend) is the spot where RLS was inspired to write "Treasure Island".
1:30 - Chapter 1 - An ill child lives through imagination 6:25 - Chapter 2 - Life as writer ? Better have a backup plan 8:55 - Mid roll ads 10:25 - Chapter 3 - Loves comes when you least expect it 14:15 - Chapter 4 - Was is a death sentence...or did it make life worth living ? 16:40 - Chapter 5 - Samoa's setting sun
"Man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens." - Dr. Henry Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
The photo you showed of Stevenson hosting people at a dinner party in his home in Samoa: Iʻd like to know for sure whether thatʻs at his home in Samoa or whether that was, as I believe it is, at ʻIolani Palace in Hawaiʻi. He is known to have visited Kalakaua and Liliʻuokalani, and I believe the photo was taken in Hawaiʻi, not Samoa at his residence. I have a particular interest in the King and Queen and ʻIolani Palace and would like to know for sure where the photo was taken. But yes, very informative and I did enjoy learning more about Robert Louis Stevenson. I was looking for more information on this friend of Liliʻuokalani. Iʻd like to learn more about his idea of being a writer as "splitting himelf into ʻmyselfʻ and ʻthe other fellow.ʻ" I guess that would be spelled out in Jekyll and Hyde.
I wish you mentioned the fact that he was loved by the people of Samoa and that they carried is body up a mountain called Mt. Vaea (not an easy hike, done it many times) where he is buried. And that there is even a Highschool named after him in Samoa.
It is reported long John Silver was a character that exsist. While RLS was in hospital as a child, saw an image of LJS come into his ward and was terrified of his wooden leg.
please do a documentary on the WEIRDEST event in wwII. Rudolf hess flies to england at the peak of the war to negotiate a surrender of germany. He landed and was immediately arrested and jailed by the british.
For a future Biographic Mariya Oktyabrskaya "Mother" or "The Fighting Girlfriend" So this gal takes angry wife/angry girlfriend to a whole new level. In the 30's she marries a Commissar in the Red Army, both of them are devout Soviet citizens (Mariya would be trained as a nurse, basic munitions production, attended streamlined basic military training, learn to drive ect). In 1941 she and large numbers of factory workers were evacuated to the Urals as Operation Barbarossa tore through the Western Soviet Union. Her husband would die in the fighting around Kiev, though she would not know this for two years. After learning of his death Mariya sold all of her possessions, took extra shifts, and did various work on the side to raise enough money to buy a T-34 (she worked on the line that produced the one she bought), she wrote a letter to Stalin donating the vehicle on two conditions #1 she would be the driver/mechanic of the vehicle #2 the vehicle would be given the title "Fighting Girlfriend" both of these conditions were accepted by the Soviet Dictator seeing the propaganda value of her request. After training she was deployed to a Guards Tank Brigade in 1943, though initially sceptical of her the soldiers soon learned that Mariya was not only a capable driver but had a passion for revenge that can only come from personal loss at the hands of the enemy. During combat near Smolensk her vehicle was immobilized by incoming fire, disobeying orders she dismounted the vehicle, repaired the track and got the vehicle under way (all of this while under fire). Her dismounting and repairing the vehicle while under fire would not be an uncommon occurrence for her. During the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive her vehicle was damaged by a hidden German AT-Gun, without hesitation she dismounts and begins repairs on the vehicle, moments later she is struck by a number of shell fragments and evacuated to a military hospital in Kiev. She would die while in hospital. She would receive the awards Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin.
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Simon.tell me.when will you do a video about queen mary of romania?tell me,pls. When?
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut copy, and paste commands dies at 74
will we ever have a biographics about Simon Whistler?
Kierkegaard :(
Biographic Could you do Wilbeforce next
*"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut copy, and paste commands dies at 74
@Arna Cook Will you copy+paste it in? Would be somewhat inappropriate to type it yourself..;-)
I see this quote attributed to Jack London also ... who said it? HELP!
I'm probably in a minority of viewers, but I particularly enjoy the bios on authors: you've done some of my favorites; Poe, Lovecraft, Orwell, Asimov, and now Robert Louis Stevenson. Thanks so much for these!
No your not in a minority, I enjoy them as well.
Me also.
I always enjoy them to and they always make me think that i realy should read their books at some point.
Far from, I'd say.
Rich inner lives, make for intriguing life tales.
The biography of an author is the biography of all his/her characters. Bairgain!!
I love that he finished his life in Samoa and fell in love with the people and the country. The fact he stood up for native Samoans in his critique of the colonial powers in "A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" is testament to his character as a humanist.
Though everyone knows the basic premise of Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde, few have actually read it. I did. It's bloody brilliant.
Agreed. It seems about a hundred years ahead of its time, both in style and substance (apart from the Victorian diction, of course).
@Neal Palmer It is scary - but Alan Horowitz was using the word 'bloody' in its British-slang sense - meaning "extremely"; i.e., "It's extremely brilliant".
SAME, we did it for GCSE (uk) and i still read it for fun now. I wish i could read it for the first time again it was such a mystery i loved it
I read the book many years ago and absolutely hated it. One of the toughest reads I ever undertook.
RLS is a favorite of mine but personally I don't like that one. Glad someone does
I had heard of the writer before, but up until I visited his house in Samoa, I had never actually read any of his books. Bought a few when there and walked up to his grave to read on beautiful days. Thanks for the memories. Robert Louis. Thanks for the video, Simon.
It is remarkable how many of our greatest writers/artists all had a childhood where they were confined due to illness.
RLS is fondly remembered in Hawaii as being a dear friend of the Cleghorns, who were part of the Hawaii royal family (the patriarch of the clan in Hawaii, Archibald Cleghorn, was also of Scottish descent). He spent quite a bit of time with Hawaii’s last crown princess, Victoria Ka’iulani, and one of his poems about her passing became the lyrics of a song many youth in Hawaii still learn and sing today.
Forth from her land to mine she goes
The island maid, the island rose
Light of heart and bright of face
The daughter of a double race
Her islands here, in southern sun
Shall mourn their Ka’iulani gone. 💔
👌
I got to visit 17 Heriot Row when I visited Edinburgh two years ago and had tea with the current owners. It was amazing. I learned so much about Robert Louis Stevenson there and found in him a kindred spirit. Without realizing it, I found that I somehow traced his life backwards through geography. My earliest memories are of Monterey, California where I lived with I was 4 and 5. When I was 17 I went to Hawai'i, my first vacation. Stevenson had spent some time there before moving on to Samoa (in fact, the picture used in this video is of his time in Hawai'i. He's sitting beside Queen Lili'uokalani, the last ruler of Hawai'i, and beside her is her brother and predecessor, King Kalakaua). Then, of course, when I was 30 I took myself to Scotland, my first time doing anything by myself, my dream trip. I found RLS everywhere starting with his memorial stone in the Princes Street Gardens. Going to his house was one of the definite highlights of my trip. I spent hours there and could have spent days. Besides all I've said, I've wanted to be an author since I was 7 and have been obsessed with pirates since not long after that, so naturally, I'm a fan.
nice what was the place called?I'd like to visit
@@kool.kl1pz It was his house on Heriot Row in Edinburgh. There's a plaque outside. I got the experience of going inside through AirB&B.
Thanks for sharing, Amanda.
"A Child's Garden of Verses" was a childhood gift that I've always treasured. I'm surprised it's rarely mentioned in such biographies.
One of my favourite writers, but you don’t see a lot about him in literary circles online. Thank you for this!
I wish these videos could be put on a playlist, in historical order. 😍
I loved his Poems too.... I remember i had to memorize one of his poems in 5 grade in order to participate in Elocution... Good ol days. Made me fall in love with poetry.
Treasure Island was my introduction to "grown up books" and it's still my favorite book ❤️
On the *Monterey Peninsula is a super expensive private high school named for RLS. How expensive?......their home golf course for the golf team is Pebble Beach. Yeah, THAT Pebble Beach.
*Monterey California has one "r", Monterrey Mexico has two. Spaniards named both thusly.
Expensive is an understatement. I grew up in Monterey. You’re definitely in the ballpark.
Please do Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa , Robert Emmett, Constance Markievicz, Victor Hugo, Benjamin Tallmidge, John Graves Simcoe, John André, Stan Lee, Arthur Sullivan, Buddy Holly, Michael Farraday, Marita Lorenz
I was never a "fiction" person really, not even as a kid. Couldn't be arsed with "fantasy" much, yawn Zzzzzz LOL But being assigned to read Treasure Island for school made such an impact on me that I would find myself drawing maps on paper trying to imagine what the rest of the fictional world looked like. Which is a testament for how good of a writer the guy really was, I think.
LOL
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for bringing one of my favorite authors to light for me.
Simon, I love all your channels but Biographics is my #1 favorite.
In "An Apology for Idlers" (1877) Stevenson demonstrates to have an immense maturity and high emotional intelligence in order to make a critique of the environment around him at such early age. His words are poignant, aggressive (as is should be) and still relevant to this day. Please have in mind he wrote that BEFORE his later fiction successes, and he also wrote it BEFORE engaging in real-life adventures travelling in France and crossing USA.
Keep up the videos man, your page is important for thousands of people to continue learning!!
Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill. Poetic genius.
My english prof asked us to send her a video of Stevenson to study. The others sent her 2 minutes videos. I sent her this. I have to learn everything perfectly (with a british accent too, I'm italian) for the 5th of april (it's the 31st of march). Wish me luck
I gotta hand it to him. If I had health like that, I probably would've put myself down. I guess a love of doing something is the key.
“I travel not to anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”
Robert Louis Stevenson
That sounds like me!
As always great topic. These videos serves as pause and relief from my medical studies each week
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RLS stayed quite awhile in Monterey Ca. (One R in Monterey) he was Unwell and my GGGrandmother Simineau cared for him since they had a restaurant in Monterey. They became good friends. Good video. Thanks.
When I was in grade school, we have to learn a number of his poems from his book called A Child's Garden of verses. Some I remember to this day. Also, I read that he was a master at a certain instrument and wrote hundreds of pieces for it. So I recommend the short story "The Bottle Imp" and a movie called "The Wrong Box" that was based on one of his joke novels.
Kidnapped is my favourite book of all time, from reading at school in the 1960s and still readying it regularly today.
Only recently stumbled across this channel and I'm absolutely hooked ❤️ think you could do a vid on Dumas?? keep up the great work!!
Could you make a video on the life of Franz Liszt? I think he was a creative artist who lived a crazy life, worthy of a biography.
The architect of a large chunk of my childhood. Good form, Simon. Good form.
I'm watching all the novelist episodes. As an inspiring novelist, on the brink of something good. These writers lives. I find somethings similar to my life thus far and the similar struggles they had. I feel as though I have more friends with like minds than before thanks everybody at Biographics
The videogames industry is DESPERATELY in need of good writers. I don't know how much "books" still work in this day and age. For me personally, I can't read anything, I can't simply be arsed with being sitting focusing on one single task (phisically impossible) But when I think about a good vehicle that makes use of stories, I see videogames, one of the last "frontiers" of self expression still available
Even though care has to be put on the delivery. No videogame player would be arsed to sit through paragraphs of text, that kind of stuff is of no use and would cause the opposite effect you wanted. Plot elements and story being told as you move around the game, and not in still text boxes. Daggerfall/Skyrim is on the verge of excess (even though they make the excessive portion completely Optional to the player, and not required for progress) DeusEx/Thief series would be good examples of good flow. Metal Gear Solid series too, to some extent.
Stevenson part of the great Scottish Renaissance, where nearly every heavyweight intellectual in 19th century England was of Scottish descent. Not bad for a people who just a century before were viewed as inferior.
That's it. They were viewed that view by racist colonisers, but they never were inferior
@@user-fc7dh8yz9d Maybe they were from English POV, the same way Japanese were viewed as inferior prior to the Meiji Restoration.
Stevenson's 'SPY GLASS HILL' (Treasure Island) is likely named after 'Sugarloaf Hill' located on the Peter Michael Vineyard/Estate in Knight's Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA. Stevenson's Best Man at his San Francisco wedding (1880) was Virgil Williams, who recommended to the newly married Stevensons their 'Honeymoon' camping location located on the slopes of Mt Saint Helena (MSH), north of Calistoga, CA. From this period, arose Stevenson's book: 'The Silverado Squatters'. Williams lived in Knight's Valley partly during the year on the upper slopes (of MSH) above Knight's Valley and Stevenson was said to have called on Williams at his cabin there - but first having to ride within sight of Sugarloaf Hill.
Very nice video, I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing with us
Mad respect for anyone who makes a law degree as the backup plan.
This was absolutely fascinating, I have never heard any of the details of his life before, what a story!
Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination, living there you’ll be free!
Love Willie Wonka (the Gene Wilder version)
Arguably my biggest inspiration along with Italo Calvino and Tolkien. He had the clearest and most whimsical writing style of them all.
"Her name was Alison Cunnngham, but everyone just called her Cummy."
Ill just leave this here.
Nah not cummy. He said cunni. Like in cunnilingus.
@@Spartan265 3:58 listen again
@@Spartan265 4:57 again lmao
Alright, settle down people, nothing to see here, it was just one of the narrators poorly veiled standard political slurs - calling poor, dead and defenseless mrs Cunningham "commie" ...
Simon: and you will see how he was able to tell such epic stories
Me: ooh he probably had tons of real life adventures
Simon: he was sick
Robert Peel (1788-1850) the founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force Service at Scotland Yard in 1829.
The Custodian Helmet is the headgear traditionally worn by male police constables and sergeants while on foot patrol in England and Wales. Officers of all ranks in most forces are also issued a flat, peaked cap that is worn on mobile patrol in a vehicle. Ranks above sergeant wear the peaked cap only. However, some Inspectors wear the Custodian Helmet, but with two silver bands around the base (to match the two pips worn as rank insignia) to denote their position.
Claimed by some sources to have been based on the spiked pickelhaube worn by the Prussian Army, it was first adopted by the London Metropolitan Police in 1863 to replace the "stovepipe" top hat worn since 1829. In 1863, the Metropolitan Police replaced the previous uniform of white trousers, swallow-tailed coat and top hat in favour of very dark blue trousers, a more modern button up tunic and the early type of helmet which had an upturned brim at the front and a raised spine at the back, running from the bottom to the top of the helmet, which became known as the "cockscomb".
Simon please make episodes on the space pioneers, Gagarin,Von Braun, Korolev
Excellent. Thanks for the video. Ever consider one on Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson?
wonderful episode Simon! thanks. ive always loved Stevensons work and this gave me a small window into his astounding life.
3:58
*Rolling a joint*
Wait what?
Up next...
*Simon Whistler: The Man The Myth The Legend*
Give it up loser
Don't mind me. I'm just here for my daily dose of biographics.
Sounds like "myself" is left brain and "the other fellow" is right brain. Left brain is logic and ego, right brain is emotion and creativity.
Thank you Simon, well articulated and sensitive as always.
As always, another great video. Thanks so much for your service.
Wow, I've read his books but never knew much about him. Very interesting man that Mr Stevenson.
Kidnapped was the first book I read.
If you're ever in Edinburgh there's a small museum dedicated to him.
I live in Edinburgh in the village of Colinton so you might know the thing about that..... He wrote his books in the church yard of Colinton parish church with his dog And..... I LIVE IN THAT VILLAGE 👌👌👌👌👌
I grew up near the beach that looks out on what is now Point Lobos National park, which (according to local legend) is the spot where RLS was inspired to write "Treasure Island".
Thank you . Now I know more about the man. My elementary school was his namesake.
Why never any bios of composers?
My favourite writer❤
Have they done a video about H.G Wells yet?
Very interesting. I hadn't realised RLS had died at a relatively young age,and in a different country.
Finally one of my favorite authors
1:30 - Chapter 1 - An ill child lives through imagination
6:25 - Chapter 2 - Life as writer ? Better have a backup plan
8:55 - Mid roll ads
10:25 - Chapter 3 - Loves comes when you least expect it
14:15 - Chapter 4 - Was is a death sentence...or did it make life worth living ?
16:40 - Chapter 5 - Samoa's setting sun
Do one on the renaissance painter Matthias grunewald.
"Man is not truly one, but truly two. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens."
- Dr. Henry Jekyll in Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
You don't need audible. Just UA-cam,. Most audio books are available on youtube
Hey Biographics! Could you do a video about Edward Berneys? The mind behind advertisement
Reading DR. Jekyll and MR. Hyde for Gothic Lit. class right now!
I quite liked kidnapped and I wish I could read treasure island,the ending scene between Alan and David was very sad and emotional ngl
Love the videos and how you present them! (As a small request I'd love to see you do a piece on the Marquis De Sade someday!)
great and thanks so much boss
It must have been awesome to see J.M. Barrie and R.L. Stephenson meet.
Thank you so much ! Very interesting and well explained .
THANK YOU MAN.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Simon,I don't watch every video, yet you hit many home runs! What's that in cricket speak? ;-)
I think it's called sixes.
A boundary
I always like the information you give in these channels. I was hoping you can feature the caucasian samurai, William Adams, in a video.
Could you do an episode on Thomas Sankara please?
Awesome! I just read Treasure Island recently...definitely recommend it!
THIS HELPED SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH THANK YOU!
It's funny, I don't recall a previous Biographics where they mention that the featured person was just like.... a charming & delightful chap. 🌻
I love author bios! I want to read his books now thank you
The sailor home from the sea, the hunter home from the hill analogy is how I hope to feal about Death in Old age...
do a vid on Jose Rizal, a Philippine hero.
"Imagination isn't always kind" i call that happy little accidents.
The photo you showed of Stevenson hosting people at a dinner party in his home in Samoa: Iʻd like to know for sure whether thatʻs at his home in Samoa or whether that was, as I believe it is, at ʻIolani Palace in Hawaiʻi. He is known to have visited Kalakaua and Liliʻuokalani, and I believe the photo was taken in Hawaiʻi, not Samoa at his residence. I have a particular interest in the King and Queen and ʻIolani Palace and would like to know for sure where the photo was taken.
But yes, very informative and I did enjoy learning more about Robert Louis Stevenson. I was looking for more information on this friend of Liliʻuokalani. Iʻd like to learn more about his idea of being a writer as "splitting himelf into ʻmyselfʻ and ʻthe other fellow.ʻ" I guess that would be spelled out in Jekyll and Hyde.
A great man
I wish you mentioned the fact that he was loved by the people of Samoa and that they carried is body up a mountain called Mt. Vaea (not an easy hike, done it many times) where he is buried. And that there is even a Highschool named after him in Samoa.
I loved his book about the South Seas
It is reported long John Silver was a character that exsist. While RLS was in hospital as a child, saw an image of LJS come into his ward and was terrified of his wooden leg.
I enjoy your biographies of authors. Have you considered doing one on Vladimir Nabokov? Pretty fascinating life!
Do a video on basil the second
I’m from Nigeria and I’ve read treasure island in high school
The original "Treasure Island" map being lost is appropriate. I couldn't agree more.
Sky Den they should have made a map of where to seek it...
please do a documentary on the WEIRDEST event in wwII. Rudolf hess flies to england at the peak of the war to negotiate a surrender of germany. He landed and was immediately arrested and jailed by the british.
Very interesting. Thank you very much ❤.
Wow, Samoa. Thank you for the biography, I had no idea he went to that island or that he was so sickly for so much of his life.
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For a future Biographic Mariya Oktyabrskaya "Mother" or "The Fighting Girlfriend"
So this gal takes angry wife/angry girlfriend to a whole new level. In the 30's she marries a Commissar in the Red Army, both of them are devout Soviet citizens (Mariya would be trained as a nurse, basic munitions production, attended streamlined basic military training, learn to drive ect). In 1941 she and large numbers of factory workers were evacuated to the Urals as Operation Barbarossa tore through the Western Soviet Union. Her husband would die in the fighting around Kiev, though she would not know this for two years. After learning of his death Mariya sold all of her possessions, took extra shifts, and did various work on the side to raise enough money to buy a T-34 (she worked on the line that produced the one she bought), she wrote a letter to Stalin donating the vehicle on two conditions
#1 she would be the driver/mechanic of the vehicle
#2 the vehicle would be given the title "Fighting Girlfriend"
both of these conditions were accepted by the Soviet Dictator seeing the propaganda value of her request.
After training she was deployed to a Guards Tank Brigade in 1943, though initially sceptical of her the soldiers soon learned that Mariya was not only a capable driver but had a passion for revenge that can only come from personal loss at the hands of the enemy.
During combat near Smolensk her vehicle was immobilized by incoming fire, disobeying orders she dismounted the vehicle, repaired the track and got the vehicle under way (all of this while under fire). Her dismounting and repairing the vehicle while under fire would not be an uncommon occurrence for her.
During the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive her vehicle was damaged by a hidden German AT-Gun, without hesitation she dismounts and begins repairs on the vehicle, moments later she is struck by a number of shell fragments and evacuated to a military hospital in Kiev. She would die while in hospital.
She would receive the awards Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Lenin.
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