{"product_id":"under-the-wide-and-starry-sky","title":"Under the Wide and Starry Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe passionate and turbulent story of Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the age of thirty-five, Fanny van de Grift Osbourne leaves her philandering husband in San Francisco and sets sail for Belgium to study art, with her three children and a nanny in tow. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her brood repair to a quiet artists' colony in France where she can recuperate. There she meets Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who is instantly smitten with the earthy, independent and opinionated belle Americaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA woman ahead of her time, Fanny does not immediately take to the young lawyer who longs to devote his life to literature, and who would eventually write such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson's charms. The two begin a fierce love affair, marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness, which spans decades as they travel the world for the sake of his health. Eventually they settled in Samoa, where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried underneath the epitaph:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the wide and starry sky,\u003cbr\u003eDig the grave and let me lie.\u003cbr\u003eGlad did I live and gladly die,\u003cbr\u003eAnd I laid me down with a will.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis be the verse you grave for me:\u003cbr\u003eHere he lies where he longed to be;\u003cbr\u003eHome is the sailor, home from sea,\u003cbr\u003eAnd the hunter home from the hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Requiem, Robert Louis Stevenson)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH - Out of Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50830951252130,"sku":"9780345516534","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/7331\/4722\/files\/Screenshot2026-11-06163246.png?v=1794000802","url":"https:\/\/northernnookup.com\/products\/under-the-wide-and-starry-sky","provider":"Northern Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}