The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1925
Category : London (England)
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 1925
Category : London (England)
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Author : Claire Harman
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : anboco
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3736405448
A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing." The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title Carmina non prius audita de ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,64 MB
Release : 1918
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,73 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 1900
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
and at a brisk pace to the door of a quiet establishment in Rupert Street, Soho. The entrance was adorned with one of those gigantic Highlanders of wood which have almost risen to the standing of antiquities; and across the window-glass, which sheltered the usual display of pipes, tobacco, and cigars, there ran the gilded legend: ‘Bohemian Cigar Divan, by T. Godall.’ The interior of the shop was small, but commodious and ornate; the salesman grave, smiling, and urbane; and the two young men, each puffing a select regalia, had soon taken their places on a sofa of mouse-coloured plush and proceeded to exchange their stories....FROM THE BOOKS.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2008-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199536082
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).
Author : Richard Woodhead
Publisher : Luath Press Limited
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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A consultant physician for 22 years with a strong interest in Robert Louis Stevenson's life and work, Richard Woodhead was intrigued by the questions raised by the references to his symptoms. The assumption that he suffered from consumption - the diagnosis of the day - is challenged here. Consumption (tuberculosis), a scourge of nineteenth century society, it was regarded as severely debilitating if not a death sentence. Dr Woodhead examines how Stevenson's life was affected by his illness and his perception of it. This fictional work puts words into the mouths of five doctors who treated RLS at different periods of his adult life. Though these doctors existed in real-life, little is documented of their private conversations with RLS. However everything Dr Woodhead postulates could have occurred within the known framework of RLS's life. Detailed use of Stevenson's own writing adds authenticity to the views espoused in the book. RLS's writing continues to compel readers today. The fact that he did much of his writing while confined to his sick-bed is fascinating. What illness could have contributed to his creativity?
Author : Philip Callow
Publisher : Constable Limited
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This biography of beloved Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, provides an illuminating account of a sickly child, son of a Presbyterian lighthouse engineer, who became in turn a Bohemian dandy, a literary gypsy, and at 28 the lover of an American woman ten years his senior. The text chronicles Stevenson's life and achievements right through to his death in 1894.