Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, Part VI, Volume 1
Author: Ralph PitePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040128947
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers. Part of the "Lives of Victorian Literary Figures" series, this three-volume facsimile edition draws together a range of biographical sources relating to these three celebrated Victorian authors.
Reading Primary Sources
Author: Miriam DobsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134086776
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
How does the historian approach primary sources? How do interpretations differ? How can they be used to write history? Reading Primary Sources goes a long way to providing answers for these questions. In the first part of this unique volume, the chapters give an overview of both traditional and new methodological approaches to the use of sources, analyzing the way that these have changed over time. The second part gives an overview of twelve different types of written sources, including letters, opinion polls, surveillance reports, diaries, novels, newspapers, and dreams, taking into account the huge expansion in the range of written primary sources used by historians over the last thirty years. This book is an up-to-date introduction into the historical context of these different genres, the ways they should be read, the possible insights and results these sources offer and the pitfalls of their interpretation. All of the chapters push the reader beyond a conventional understanding of source texts as mere "reflections" of a given reality, instead fostering an understanding of how each of the various genres has to be seen as a medium in its own right. Taking examples of sources from around the globe, and also including a student-friendly further reading section, this is the perfect companion for every student of history who wants to engage with sources.
The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Standard Catalog: Biography Section
Author: H.W. Wilson CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Bio-bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Myself and the Other Fellow
Author: Claire HarmanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060935251
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
He thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates (Treasure Island) and monsters (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). But the short life of writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction. He was both engineer and aesthete, Covenanter and atheist, dutiful son and reckless lover. His travels, illnesses, creative struggles, volatile relationships, and titanic quarrels were the stuff of legend. Until now, no biography has done justice to the complex, brilliant, and troubled man who was responsible for so many remarkable literary creations, the least "Victorian" of Victorian writers. Claire Harman's Myself & the Other Fellow is a fascinating portrait of a man of humor, resilience, and strongly unconventional views, the most authoritative, comprehensive, and perceptive biography of Robert Louis Stevenson to date.
In the South Seas
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Polynesia
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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.
Treasure Island
Author: Hannah CatherPublisher:
ISBN: 9781786705655
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages :
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