Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The wrong box. The ebb-tide, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne. Island nights entertainments
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The wrong box; The ebb-tide; Island nights entertainments
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Ebb-tide
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Island Nights’ Entertainments
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849642666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
The title of the volume which includes The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices. The 'Beach' turns on the native dread of the spirit-devils in the woods, interwoven with which is the island life of natives and whites viewed through the eyes of a commonplace trade. It is a picture of the South Seas, very different from the idylls of Hermann Melville. In 'The Bottle Imp', the protagonist buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, their soul is forfeit to hell. 'The Isle of Voices' is a fairytale of magic treasure.
Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Hodder & Stoughton's sixpenny novels. No.6 448
Author: Hodder and Stoughton, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Library to June, 1895
Author: Royal Dublin SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Familiar Studies Of Men And Books
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849642593
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Of the nine essays collected in this volume, seven had appeared in the ' Cornhill Magazine. ' The whole set range in date from 1874 to 1881, and thus belong to the period of Stevenson's life during which the papers in Virginibus Puerisque were written. The ' familiar studies ' are Victor Hugo's Romances, Some Aspects Of Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshido Torajiro, François Villon, Charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys, and John Knox and Women. In arranging them for republication R. L. S. prefaced them by some notes of self-criticism, in which he is at much pains to show where, as he thought, he had accorded less than full justice to his subjects.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849642461
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
The book which made Stevenson famous, and has since become a classic among tales of adventure, to be ranked with "Robinson Crusoe". Its appearance did much more than establish him as a writer for boy readers. In fact, the book was not instantaneously a success among readers of that day, pledged to Captain Marry at and his imitators. But it brought Stevenson prominently to the notice of an elder public, able to perceive the uncommon power of romantic description which marked Treasure Island from previous tales of adventure. A couple of years passed before this yarn of buccaneers and mutiny on the high seas became one of the most popular of boys' books. Meanwhile its author, who had never been a campaigner like Mayne Reid in Mexico, or Ballantyne with the Hudson Bay Company, but had lived in a bedroom world of romance of his own making, first found himself recognized as a writer of note outside the small literary circle in which his work was esteemed.
The Ebb-Tide
Author: Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849642674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
In 1890, the year after first reaching Samoa but before he had properly settled there, Stevenson and his stepson planned and began what they intended to be a huge novel, a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. It took them until 1893 to finish the story. It seems to be that Stevenson realized he had taken his spade too deep in the black depths of human nature. His metier had mostly been the dark primitive passions of the race, but not even the conception of pure evil in Mr. Hyde is more repulsive than the trio of villainy in The Ebb Tide, where it is heightened against the dazzling beauty of the Pacific seas and beaches.