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Weir of Hermiston – Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Virginibus Puerisque” is a collection of short essays and mostly a record of Stevenson’s opinions – which means, largely, of his likes and dislikes. It all comes back to his sympathy with the juvenile, and that feeling about life which leads him to regard women as so many superfluous girls in a boy’s game.

Weir of Hermiston

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Weir of Hermiston.

ISBN: 9783849675837.

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Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson  (from Wikipedia):

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers – Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Virginibus Puerisque” is a collection of short essays and mostly a record of Stevenson’s opinions – which means, largely, of his likes and dislikes. It all comes back to his sympathy with the juvenile, and that feeling about life which leads him to regard women as so many superfluous girls in a boy’s game.

 Virginibus Puerisque and other papersFormat: Paperback.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers.

ISBN: 9783849675820.

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Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson  (from Wikipedia):

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange

Vailima Letters – Robert Louis Stevenson

The value of these letters lies in their being like their writer. All Stevenson’s work, when it was successful, was a more or less literal transcription of his everyday self. Even his literary discipline tended and helped to this end, instead of to the production of an artificial and unfamiliar self. No writer owed so much to his own social qualities ; and his popularity is very far from being an exclusively literary one. His interests, his views of life, his opinions on books, his hopes, his despondencies, his eccentricities, heresies, prejudices, he insinuates into his readers, and they are adopted, cheered, echoed, in most unlikely quarters, not because of their intrinsic worth 01 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

The book which made Stevenson famous, and has since become a classic among tales of adventure, to be ranked with “Robinson Crusoe”. Its appearance did much more than establish him as a writer for boy readers. In fact, the book was not instantaneously a success among readers of that day, pledged to Captain Marry at and his imitators. But it brought Stevenson prominently to the notice of an elder public, able to perceive the uncommon power of romantic description which marked Treasure Island from previous tales of adventure. A couple of years passed before this yarn of buccaneers and mutiny on the high seas became one of the most popular of boys’ books. Meanwhile … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Essential Travel Writings – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Story of a Lie”has a curious bibliography. It was written in August, 1879 on a voyage from Glasgow to New York, “in a slantindicular cabin, with the table playing bob-cherry with the ink-bottle.” It was sold to Kegan Paul’s “withered babe, the New Quarterly,” a periodical of brief existence, where it appeared in October, 1879, having been forwarded to Mr. Sidney Colvin immediately on the author’s arrival in America. R. L. S. was anxious to know what impression it made upon his friends, who were told to “ remember that it was written at sea in great anxiety of mind,” but it did not, in the agitated history of his affairs, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...