Robert Louis Stevenson: 1171 books

The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another...

Two recent books [1] one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from...

PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in Macmillan’s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under...

III—THE CANOE SPEAKS On the great streams the ships may go About men’s business to and fro. But I, the egg-shell pinnace, sleep On crystal waters ankle-deep: I, whose diminutive design, Of sweeter cedar, pithier pine, Is fashioned on so frail a mould, A hand may launch, a hand withhold: I,...

John Varey Nicholson was stupid; yet, stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood, and inclined to a cheerful and cursory reading of the face of life; and possibly this attitude of mind...

You shall seek in vain upon the map of Europe for the bygone state of Grünewald. An independent principality, an infinitesimal member of the German Empire, she played, for several centuries, her part in the discord of Europe; and, at last, in the ripeness of time and at the spiriting of several bald...

PRAYER I ask good things that I detest, With speeches fair; Heed not, I pray Thee, Lord, my breast, But hear my prayer. I say ill things I would not say— Things unaware: Regard my breast, Lord, in Thy day, And not my prayer. My heart is evil in Thy sight: My good thoughts flee: O...

It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon of the little hotel at C— — in Switzerland, and drew her chair up to the fire.

|Extrait| C'était au mois de mai 1813 que j'avais eu le malheur de tomber aux mains des Anglais. Ma connaissance de la langue anglaise, -- j'avais appris cette langue dès l'enfance et la parlais presque aussi aisément que le français, -- m'avait valu d'être choisi par mon colonel pour certaine besogne des plus délicates.

“...Bennet alzó al viejo arquero y lo apoyó sobre su rodilla. Todavía no estaba muerto. Contraíase su rostro, abría y cerraba sus ojos maquinalmente, y en su mirada se dibujaba una horrible mueca de dolor...”. Novela de fondo histórico que se desarrolla durante la guerra civil que enfrenta...

La historia más célebre de Piratas, con ilustraciones originales.

Écrit en 1888, ce roman est d'abord sorti en feuilleton dans une revue jeunesse. L'histoire se déroule au royaume d'Angleterre pendant la période troublée de la guerre des 2 roses. Le jeune héros, Richard « Dick » Shelton, découvre que le responsable du meurtre de son père n'est autre que...

* Book : Nouvelles Mille et une nuits * Biographie * Bibliographie Pourquoi ce titre? Parce que chaque nouvelle, articulée en épisodes, de ce recueil, apporte quelque chose à l'histoire globale et l'enrichit, et que le narrateur, tel Shéhérazade, incite le lecteur à lire la suite pour...