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New Arabian Nights – Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson’s title for these tales of imagination clearly shows what he intended their character to be. Plainly they were not meant to be realistic. Their stilted, artificial style is out of keeping with such an object. They were evidently to be stories which are entertaining in the same way that the “Arabian Nights” is entertaining, with just as little pretence of realism. As a child in his grandfather’s manse at Colinton he had devoured the eastern tales; the New Arabian Nights, written when he was twenty-eight, are a special form of literary invention which came easily from Stevenson’s habit of investing the most ordinary places and people with the wildest romance. The stories … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Dynamiter – Robert Louis Stevenson

The only book of Stevenson’s written in collaboration with his wife, to whose powers of invention and descriptive writing the greater part of it is due. It had its origin at the time of his slow and perilous recovery from the nearly fatal illness at Hyeres in the spring of 1884. Forbidden to speak and under orders to lie in darkness, the long hours were relieved by tales which Mrs. Stevenson made up for his amusement. A few months afterwards, when they had settled at Bournemouth, where Louis was to live the life of a delicate girl, these stories were drawn upon as material for a series planned on the lines of the New … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Merry Men and other Tales and Fables – Robert Louis Stevenson

A story which shows Stevenson’s powder of vividly descriptive writing at perhaps its highest level, but one which, as a story, has been variously criticized. It was written in the Highlands in 1881, the year after his marriage, as one of a series of tales of horror (‘ crawlers,’ as he called them), planned in collaboration with his wife. Aros of the story is the tidal islet of Earraid, famous under its own name in Kidnapped ; the Ross of Grisapol is the Ross of Mull ; and Ben Ryan, Ben More. The name of the Merry Men is plainly taken from the Merry Men of Mey, as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records – Robert Louis Stevenson

This edition is one the most complete Stevensonia collections. It contains a wealth of his essays, memories and records. The essays brought together under this title are chiefly Stevenson’s reflections, ten years afterwards, on the experiences and friendships of his youth. They represent a proportion of his contributions of this kind to reviews and magazines, from 1882 to 1887. Some of the essays are : The Foreigner at Home, Old Mortality, Pastoral, The Manse, Thomas Stevenson, Talk and Talkers, The Character of Dogs and A Penny Plain.

Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records

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Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records.

ISBN: 9783849676186.

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The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson

In his romance “The Master of Ballantrae” Stevenson has touched high-water mark. One is tempted to go beyond this and say that no modern work of fiction in the English language rises higher in the scale of literary merit than this. It is a story of human passion, of human weakness, of human love and hate. The scene of the tale, for the most part, is laid in and around the House of Durrisdeer, on the Solway shore. Four persons make up the dramatis persona, at the beginning of the story, and although others come into the drama as it wears on to its tragical close, it may be said that no … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson – Robert Louis Stevenson

This edition contains Stevenson’s letters, beginning with his student days at Edinburgh to the four years he spent in Samoa. R.L.S. was a prolific mail writer and sent letters to all kind of people from towns like Paris, San Francisco, Marseilles, Bournemouth and many more. Originally published in two volumes, all letters can now be found in this single volume.

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson.

ISBN: 9783849676353.

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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. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...