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Robert Louis Stevenson
Frank McLynnA sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotland. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
An Apology for Idlers
Robert Louis StevensonAn irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by ...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel ...
Robert Louis StevensonGordon Golding; Notes by Jaques Blondel, Gordon Golding, and Jacques Poujol (1978). Maixner = Paul Maixner (ed.) Robert Louis Stevenson: The Critical Heritage (1981). Swearingen = Roger G. Swearingen, The Prose Writings of Robert ...
Catriona (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
Robert Louis StevensonBy using a running English-to-French thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson was edited for three audiences.
Catriona (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)
Robert Louis StevensonBy using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson was edited for three audiences.
Across the Plains
Robert Louis StevensonIn Across the Plains, Stevenson recounts his experiences traveling in the United States in a series of fascinating and detailed essays.
The Amateur Emigrant
Robert Louis StevensonThis story is full of insightful observations that Stevenson had on migrants, America and Americans of the era. The work also from a detailed account of what life was like in a typical 19th-century immigrant.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography
Claire HarmanThe most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence - which has been unavailable to all previous writers.
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography (Text Only Edition)
Claire HarmanThe most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence – which has been unavailable to all previous writers.
Unsettled Narratives: The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, ...
David FarrierThis book considers the work of four Western visitors to the Pacific—Robert Louis Stevenson, William Ellis, Herman Melville, and Jack London—and the consequences for the written text and the experience of cross-cultural encounter when ...
Essays of Travel
Robert Louis StevensonThe collection Essays of Travel brings together some of Stevenson's finest essays, short memoirs, and other works that detail his thoughts on travel and foreign lands.
Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia
PreviewStevenson, Robert Louis, The Cévennes Journal: Notes onaJourney through the French Highlands, edited by Gordon Golding, withnotes byJacques Blondel, Gordon Golding, andJacques Poujol, 1978. Stevenson, RobertLouis, The Lettersof ...
Salt Lake 2002: rapport officiel des XIXèmes Jeux Olympiques ...
Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002... CRECORY STEVENS MD ALLEN STEVENSON ANDREA STEVENSON CAROL STEVENSON CHRISTIAN STEVENSON CORY STEVENSON DONALD STEVENSON ERANKLIN SI I VENSON IO STEVENSON IUSTIN STEVENSON KIRK ...
Kidnapped and Catriona
Robert Louis StevensonThe novel revolves around their friendship and their differences, suggesting a metaphor for Scotland itself.
Catriona: Stevenson's Vol. 1
Robert Louis StevensonTable of Contents Part I—THE LORD ADVOCATE CHAPTER I—A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK CHAPTER II—THE HIGHLAND WRITER CHAPTER III—I GO TO PILRIG CHAPTER IV—LORD ADVOCATE PRESTONGRANGE CHAPTER V—IN THE ADVOCATE’S HOUSE CHAPTER VI—UMQUILE ...
Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections
PreviewIn recent years there has been a wave of enthusiasm for the author of these works, with the publication of major biographies and collections of his letters.
Her Dark Curiosity
Megan ShepherdWith inspiration from Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this is a tantalizing mystery about the hidden natures of those we love and how far we'll go to save them from themselves.
Kidnapped
Robert Louis StevensonModern critics see the novel as more than a boy's adventure yarn; at the heart of it lies what Henry James described as the 'really excellent' chapters of the flight in the heather that raise the novel to greatness.The illustrations by ...
Kidnapped ; And, Catriona
Robert Louis StevensonA sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
Let's Pretend: Poems of Flight and Fancy
More editionsA collection of poems using the theme of imagination, by writers from Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson to Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein.
Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, ...
Robert Louis Stevensonpersuaded Catriona to leave, or rather, not to return, to her cousin's, placing her instead with a family of Gregorys decent people, quite at the Advocate's disposition, and in whom she might have the more confidence because they were of his ...
The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
Robert Louis StevensonThe chief exceptions are two pieces which he did not see published, ' Confessions of a Unionist', taken here from G. P. Winship's privately printed edition (1921) of the corrected proofs in the Houghton Library at Harvard; and ' Authors and ...
Treasure Island
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure Island, published in 1883, popularized the now familiar characters of pirates and brought them to rum-swilling life.
A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion: A Guide to the Novels, ...
J R HammondEdited, with an introduction and notes, by Gordon Golding (Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1978). This reproduces the text of the manuscript journal of the walking tour, 22 September–2 October 1878, which formed the basis for Travels ...
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Book Analysis): ...
Bright Summaries,Unlock the more straightforward side of Treasure Island with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
Catriona
Robert Louis StevensonWe made but a slow journey of it up, for Catriona was not so good at the riding as the running, and had scarce sat in the saddle since the 'Fortyfive. But we made it out at last, reached Paris early of a Sabbath morning, and made all speed, ...
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