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The Story of a Lie – 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 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

In The South Seas – Robert Louis Stevenson

In the South Seas, as here available to the reader, is the result of a journey on the ‘Casco’ together with Stevenson’s mother, wife and stepson. The earlier parts, those on the Marquesas and Paumotos, or low or atoll islands, most definitely mark Stevenson’s original intention ; those on the Gilberts, with their picture of the king Tembinok, are more in the personal strain of R. L. S., and are thus accepted as the most successful part of these writings. But the things most to be regretted about them is their omissions ; nothing of Stevenson’s long stay at Tautira as the guest of the chief Ori a Ori, nor of his … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Poetical Works – Robert Louis Stevenson

This edition contains Mr. Stevenson’s poetical works, divided into the following sections:

A Child’s Garden Of Verses
The child alone
Garden Days
Envoys
Underwoods
Ballads
Songs Of Travel
Additional Poems

The Poetical Works

Format: Paperback.

The Poetical Works.

ISBN: 9783849675769.

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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 Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses.

A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Silverado Squatters – Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s volume grew out of a few weeks’ sojourn of the author and his wife in a deserted miner’s cabin on the heights of Mount Saint Helena, in the California Coast Range. In a series of short sketches or chapters, Mr. Stevenson describes the incidents which befell him and his companion. One can conceive that a most entertaining history might be written of a summer’s residence in a sequestered nook among stately and remote mountains. The smallest everyday affairs rise out of the commonplace in such quaint and picturesque circumstances, affording abundant matter for a ready writer to work upon.

The Silverado Squatters

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The Silverado Squatters.

ISBN: 9783849675752.

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St. Ives – Robert Louis Stevenson

This tale of adventure, for the most part in a strain of romantic comedy, belongs to the last two years of Stevenson’s life. It tells of the adventures of a French Napoleonic soldier who got captured by British troops.

St. Ives

Format: Paperback.

St. Ives.

ISBN: 9783849675745.

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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 Mr Hyde, and A Child’s Garden of Verses.

A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Prince Otto – Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson’s second longer work of fiction is the greatest imaginable jump from the buccaneering story of Treasure Island with which he first came before a large public. Prince Otto is difficult to classify; it is not, as R. L. S. wrote, ‘ a romance, nor yet a comedy, nor yet a romantic comedy, but a kind of preparation of some of the elements of all these in a glass jar.’ It is, more than anything else, a piece of Stevenson’s paradoxical philosophy wrought into a story which, for one thing, has a very slender interest and, for another, is all the while very near to being overwhelmed by the rich beauty of its writing. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...