Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Edinburgh
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ethical Studies and Edinburgh
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 9781847187673
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume contains Stevenson's distinctive and revealing writings on ethics and morality, collected from various original publications, and a series of descriptions of his native Edinburgh written for magazine publication.
The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Edinburgh Companion to Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Penny FieldingPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748635564
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
This wide-ranging collection is the first to set Robert Louis Stevenson in detailed social, political and literary contexts.The book takes account of both Stevenson's extraordinary thematic and generic diversity and his geographical range. The chapters explore his relation to late nineteenth-century publishing, psychology, travel, the colonial world, and the emergence of modernism in prose and poetry. Through the pivotal figure of Stevenson, the collection explores how literary publishing and cultural life changed across the second half of the nineteenth century. Stevenson emerges as a complex writer, author both of hugely popular boys' stories and of seminally important adult novels, as well as the literary figure who debated with Henry James the theory of fiction and the nature of realism.The collection shows how interest in the unconscious and changes in the conception of childhood demand that we re-evaluate our ideas of his writing. Individual essays by international experts trace Stevenson' lit
The Book of Ebenezer le Page
Author: G.B. EdwardsPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a world apart from either. Ebenezer himself is fiercely independent, but as he reaches the end of his life he is determined to tell his own story and the stories of those he has known. He writes of family secrets and feuds, unforgettable friendships and friendships betrayed, love glimpsed and lost. The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is a beautifully detailed chronicle of a life, but it is equally an oblique reckoning with the traumas of the twentieth century, as Ebenezer recalls both the men lost to the Great War and the German Occupation of Guernsey during World War II, and looks with despair at the encroachments of commerce and tourism on his beloved island. G. B. Edwards labored in obscurity all his life and completed The Book of Ebenezer Le Page shortly before his death. Published posthumously, the book is a triumph of the storyteller’s art that conjures up the extraordinary voice of a living man.
The Scottish Novels
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767559X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 869
Book Description
Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson’s fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson’s contemporaries to the present day.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781479417414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for his classicn ovels, such as Treasure Island. This volume includes "The Dynamiter," a collection of connected short stories by Stevenson, including: Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb, and Story of the Fair Cuban.
The Swing
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: CrissCross AppleSauce Books
ISBN: 9781942483045
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How do you like to go up in a swing? Beautiful illustrations by Julie Morstad bring new delight to this classic poem.
The Moon
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Pictures of a father and child out in the moonlight illustrate Stevenson's poem from A child's garden of verses.
Sentinels of the Sea
Author: R. G. GrantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780500519769
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smallest of rock outcrops and the innovations that made the lights so powerful and reliable. Intricate, elegant architectural plans and elevations, and evocative period drawings and photographs showcase the innovative designs and technologies behind fifty historic lighthouses built around the world from the 17th to the 20th century. R.G. Grant's engaging and authoritative text chronicles the incredible feats of engineering and endurance that brought these iconic, isolated towers into being, the advances in lens technology that made the lights so effective, and the everyday routines of the lighthouse keepers and the heroic rescues that some performed. Packed with extraordinary stories of human endeavour, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues, the book also reveals the isolation and vulnerability of the dedicated lighthouse keepers.