![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins with Darwin at the age of 22 and is centered on the Voyage of "H.M.S. Darwin was a geologist and biologist, and is generally considered the father of evolutionary theory. He married his editor, Jean Factor Stone, in 1934.īased on five years of research by Stone (paralleling in time Darwin's years aboard the "Beagle," The Origin is a biographical novel of the life of Charles Darwin. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo. Item #8609 ISBN: 0385120648 Irving Stone (1903 – 1989) was an American writer, chiefly known for his well-reserached and popular bio-historical novels about noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Krochs & Brentanos' "1st Edition Circle" bookmark laid in. ![]() SIGNED by the Author on a publisher's tipped-in front endpaper, thick 8vo, brown cloth with silver lettering on spine, frontispiece double-spread B&W map of the Beagle's voyage, archival mylar-protected lettered dust jacket (unclipped $14.95) by Barry Littman, olive green endpapers, Bibliography, 743 pages. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. ![]()
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