Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Stevenson Library: Letters to and about Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Collection (Yale University. Library)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300091243
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Millions of readers throughout the world continue to enjoy Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, and other books by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). A celebrated author in many different fields of literature, Stevenson is also recognized as a highly engaging and prolific correspondent: he penned over 2,800 letters, which are contained in eight critically acclaimed volumes published by Yale University Press. In this book, 317 of Stevenson's most interesting and revealing letters represent each stage of his mature life. With a linking narrative and full annotation, Ernest Mehew sets the letters in the context of Stevenson's remarkable life. Beginning with the days of his troubled youth in Edinburgh, Stevenson's letters go on to tell of his love for Frances Sitwell, a beautiful, older married woman; a reckless journey to California in pursuit of Fanny Osbourne, the woman who became his wife; their worldwide but vain search for a healthy place to live; and a period of adventure in the South Seas, where Stevenson wrote some of his best work and became passionately involved in Samoan life. The letters show the author's zest for living despite daunting illnesses, his struggles with his own writing, his literary tastes, and his affection for his friends. Stevenson writes in many moods, ranging from playful and witty to deeply serious. Better than any biography ever could, these letters in Stevenson's own words tell the real story of his life.
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.
A Friendship in Letters
Author: MICHAEL. SHAWPublisher:
ISBN: 9781913207021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Newly Discovered Long Story, An Old Song, and a Previously Unpublished Short Story, Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books ; Paisley, Scotland : Wilfion Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
"A novella that never appeared under Stevenson's name during his lifetime, "An Old Song" contains thematic material that would later be developed into Jekyll and Hyde."--Goodreads.com.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438113455
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Amateur Emigrant
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
"For in emigration the young men enter direct by the shipload on their heritage of work; empty continents swarm, as at the bosun's whistle, with industrious hands, and whole hew empires are domesticated to the service of man." -Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson is the first book (followed by Across the Plains and the Silverado Squatters) in a trilogy the author wrote about his journey from Scotland to California in 1879-1880. In this volume, he describes the first leg of his trip, made by ship from Europe to New York City. Stevenson depicts the crowded conditions he experienced in steerage with others who, like him, were poor and sick. At the conclusion, the author also offers his usual sharp-eyed observations, which, in this case are of New York and New Yorkers.
South Sea Tales
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0199536082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
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).