Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
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.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
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.
Publisher:
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.
The Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [c1900]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
A Child's Garden of Verses
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, with a Selection of the Best Short Novels
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
On 23 September 1878 Stevenson set out from Le Monastier in the Haut Loire, to tramp through the wild region of the Cevennes. His only companion was a small donkey to carry basic necessities, and a commodious "sleeping sack". In the next 12 days, at a pace dictated by the donkey and carrying most of the supplies himself, he travelled 120 miles across rivers, mountains and forests. His stylish and witty account was published in 1879.
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Under the Wide and Starry Sky
Author: Nancy Horan
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034553882X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank comes a much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.” Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales. Praise for Under the Wide and Starry Sky “A richly imagined [novel] of love, laughter, pain and sacrifice . . . Under the Wide and Starry Sky is a dual portrait, with Louis and Fanny sharing the limelight in the best spirit of teamwork—a romantic partnership.”—USA Today “Powerful . . . flawless . . . a perfect example of what a man and a woman will do for love, and what they can accomplish when it’s meant to be.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Horan’s prose is gorgeous enough to keep a reader transfixed, even if the story itself weren’t so compelling. I kept re-reading passages just to savor the exquisite wordplay. . . . Few writers are as masterful as she is at blending carefully researched history with the novelist’s art.”—The Dallas Morning News “A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.”—The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 034553882X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank comes a much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.” Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales. Praise for Under the Wide and Starry Sky “A richly imagined [novel] of love, laughter, pain and sacrifice . . . Under the Wide and Starry Sky is a dual portrait, with Louis and Fanny sharing the limelight in the best spirit of teamwork—a romantic partnership.”—USA Today “Powerful . . . flawless . . . a perfect example of what a man and a woman will do for love, and what they can accomplish when it’s meant to be.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Horan’s prose is gorgeous enough to keep a reader transfixed, even if the story itself weren’t so compelling. I kept re-reading passages just to savor the exquisite wordplay. . . . Few writers are as masterful as she is at blending carefully researched history with the novelist’s art.”—The Dallas Morning News “A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.”—The New York Times Book Review
Kidnapped
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson is a coming-of-age novel that recounts the adventures of a teenager named David Balfour during the Jacobite Rebellions in 18th century Scotland. Following his father's death, David reaches out to an uncle, who betrays his nephew and sells him to a slave-trader headed for America. David's rescue from the slave ship by a Jacobite refugee starts David on a series of adventures that ensure his passage into manhood.
The Body-snatcher
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grave robbing
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grave robbing
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author: Claire Harman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.