Robert Louis Stevenson: 1171 books

This book contains Robert Stevenson's 1887 work, "Memories and Portraits". It is a collection of essays that form an autobiographical sketch of this most esteemed author, and it will greatly appeal to those with an interest in his life and mind. The chapters of this book include: "The Foreigner at...

Selected and introduced by Jenni Calder. Ill health drove Robert Louis Stevenson from Scotland; the urge for new and adventurous places drew him to the Pacific. There were those at home who would have been happier to see him purely as a spinner of the picturesque, but Stevenson could not close his eyes...

Diese Ausgabe von "In der Südsee" wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) war ein schottischer Schriftsteller des viktorianischen Zeitalters. Bekannt geworden sind vor allem der Jugendbuchklassiker Die Schatzinsel sowie...

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'For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.' - RLS In September 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled by donkey through the Cevennes region of France. For personal memory - and, as it happens, for literary posterity - the young...

The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about the last two remaining survivors of a tontine, who also happen to be brothers. The book is notable for being the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with...

CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...

Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885. The novel was largely written during 1883. Stevenson referred to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort", one of the chapters was rewritten eight times by Stevenson and once by his wife.

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a...

Le vieux révérend Soulis suscite malgré lui l’effroi de ses paroissiens comme aucun homme d’église. Mais de tragiques évènements l’ont durablement marqué, il y a fort longtemps, lorsqu’il prit pour servante une vieille boîteuse du nom de Janet… Janet la revenante (aussi traduit...

"The sea fogs" is an account of a trip to Napa Valley (California), first published by Stevenson in short story form in 1879. During this trip the writer's health worsens: influenced by disease, Stevenson began writing of poisonous mists from the sea that hover over the valley below. Then,...

Das Werk "The Merry Men", deutsch "Die tollen Männer", ist eine Erzählung des schottischen Schriftstellers Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Sie erschien erstmals 1882 im "Cornhill Magazine", 1887 nahm sie Stevenson in etwas überarbeiteter Form in seine Kurzgeschichtensammlung...

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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...