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
Love and Its Place in Nature He also argues that most criticisms and defenses of psychoanalysis are irrelevant. "Love and Its Place in Nature" was first published in 1990 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States and HarperCollins in Canada. In 1992, the book was published by Faber and Faber in the United Kingdom. In 1998, it was published in a second edition with a new preface by Lear. "Love and Its Place in Nature" received positive reviews from Genevieve Stuttaford in "Publishers Weekly", Paul Hymowitz in "Library Journal", and Don Browning in "The Christian Century", and a negative review from Robert Brown in