Robert Louis Stevenson so many irons in the fire". He wrote "The Beach of Falesa", "Catriona" (titled "David Balfour" in the US), "The Ebb-Tide", and the "Vailima Letters" during this period. Stevenson grew depressed and wondered if he had exhausted his creative vein, as he had been "overworked bitterly" and that the best he could write was "ditch-water". He even feared that he might again become a helpless invalid. He rebelled against this idea: "I wish to die in my boots; no more Land of Counterpane for me. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from a horse — ay, to
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (original title in , literally "The Man Who Chased His Shadow") is the fifth novel in the "Millennium" series, focusing on the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Written by David Lagercrantz, this is the second novel in the series not authored by the series' creator and author of the first three "Millennium" books, Stieg Larsson, who died of a heart attack in 2004. The novel was released worldwide on 7 September 2017. Following the events in Lagercrantz’s first novel in the