Monatsarchive: September 2017

Ballads – Robert Louis Stevenson

The most ambitious and, if one excepts the Child’s Garden, the best of Stevenson’s work in verse belongs to his thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth years. The ballad was a literary form which he did not attempt until his second visit to America. Ticonderoga, founded on a legend of the Camerons, was written at Saranac, and published in ‘ Scribner’s Magazine,’ December 1887. In the following year at Tautira in the island of Tahiti, he learnt the legend which in The Song of Rahero is told with a flood of savage gusto in keeping with its tragic subject. The ballad, and that of The Feast of Famine, in which were ‘strung together some of the more striking … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Tales and Fantasies – Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume contains three stories, all from the realm of fantastic and supernatural tales: The Misadventures of John Nicholson, The Body Snatcher, and The Story of a Lie, all juvenile work of Stevenson.

Tales and Fantasies

Format: Paperback.

Tales and Fantasies.

ISBN: 9783849676445.

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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 … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson

When the publishers asked for a successor to Treasure Island, Stevenson turned to the period of the Wars of the Roses as a setting for a tale of adventure frankly written for youthful readers. The only preparation a boy needs for enjoying “The Black Arrow ” is some slight acquaintance with Shakespeare or Walter Scott; nay, if he have but skimmed the briefest history of the brave old medieval times, and knows what a part in them the long-bow and the cross-bow played, and what a salet is, and what a lance, he will need no further introduction to this tale of the early days of Richard Crookback—a tale “retold” (like that of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Amateur Emigrant – Robert Louis Stevenson

Evidently the title of this book was intended to apply to the whole story of Stevenson’s journey to California in August 1879 to arrange his marriage with Mrs. Osbourne. The words fit the record of his experiences both as practically a steerage passenger and on the second stage of the journey —by rail across America—which forms the subject of ‘Across the Plains’. Its great realism, apart from the description of natural effects, was a new departure for Stevenson, who wrote that he had ‘ sought to be prosaic in view of the nature of the subject.’

The Amateur Emigrant

Format: Paperback.

The Amateur Emigrant.

ISBN: 9783849676414.

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The Dramatical Works – Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson wrote four dramas, all in collaboration with William Ernest Henley. The dramas, all of them included in this edition, are: Admiral Guinea, Beau Austin, Deacon Brodie and Macaire.

The Dramatical Works

Format: Paperback.

The Dramatical Works.

ISBN: 9783849676407.

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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 world. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Across the Plains – Robert Louis Stevenson

The successor in our day to both Jules Verne and Edward Bellamy is H. G. Wells, and his book, “The World Set Free,” embodies more of his creed than anything heretofore published. The goal of Mr. Wells’ thinking is the end of war and the realization upon earth of a real “parliament of the world.” This outcome is to be reached, not as in Bellamy’s scheme by peaceful evolution, but only after the present social order has been rent asunder by the release of certain elemental physical forces to be revealed to man through processes similar to those that have led to the great discoveries and inventions of the more recent past. The … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...