Download or read book R L Stevenson s Theory and Practice of Prose Fiction written by Hugh Lincoln Cook and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson as a Critic of Prose Fiction written by Nigel Pauline Hill and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in 35 volumes written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson has always been a writer’s writer. Contemporaries like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry James were awed by his kaleidoscopic invention and the flawless “English” of his prose, while later authors like Somerset Maugham and Robertson Davies, drawn to the physical and psychological exotica of his subject, introduced him into their own writing—a quasi-postmodernist way of elevating their own status by alluding to his achievement and doffing their hats at the same time. Yet Stevenson was also, and perhaps foremost, a reader’s writer, a phrase that has less currency but far greater reach. Jorge Luis Borges offered it as his belief that Stevenson brought happiness to more people than any other author, although the observation was admittedly made before the age of the megamarket paperback. The great Argentinean, who late in life could refer to details from Stevenson’s earliest short stories with astonishing accuracy, clearly derived immense pleasure in conjuring up ficciones that he read as a young man. His example illuminates an experience shared by all sorts and conditions of Stevenson readers: they remember him, or come to him, from the profusion of his compositions, and even from forms, like cinema, that his work was subsequently incorporated into. One reader might have a dim memory of a line or two that was read to her when she was a small child (“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me”). Another recalls the dark and searching N.C. Wyeth illustration of Blind Pew, his tapping stick motionless as he hovers, crook-backed, before the “Admiral Benbow.” For countless numbers Stevenson emerged from chiaroscuro images of Spencer Tracy or Frederick March as the eponymous Jekyll/Hyde, or more recently from John Malkovich and Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, Valerie Martin’s revision of filmdom’s favorite doppelganger movie. These bit examples barely convey Stevenson’s ubiquity in general culture. The name has more popular recognition than most other authors (Shakespeare, Austen, Twain always excepted) yet people are continually surprised when they discover how widely the writer is quoted, indeed how proverbial he has become (“Home is the sailor, home from sea,/ And the hunter home from the hill”; “Marriage…is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses”; “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary”; “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”). Stevenson was the first modernist writer to systematically experiment with grafting serious matter onto popular forms. He virtually invented the twentieth century short story; he breathed new life into a tired and tedious Victorian essay without stripping it of its importance; he brought psychological realism into historical fiction, and adapted the mode as well in his studies of contemporary life in the South Seas. As for language, he did for English what Goethe did for German, and elevated his own Scots tongue to a level of art that had not been matched since Walter Scott. Stevenson’s work—short and long fiction, travel writing, poetry, essays, and letters (he was one of the great letter writers of the nineteenth century) will ensorcell readers with a writer who, like Ernest Hemingway, is that rare figure whose prose at its best is dateless, and one whose intellectual theories of art and culture are perhaps more compelling today because we are better prepared to understand them. This edition of the Works contains all of Stevenson's known works, including the novels, short stories, essays, plays and a substantial collection of letters, plus both the version of 'The Beach of Falesá' originally published and the unexpurgated version only discovered in the 1980s. This includes some material written in collaboration. The contents of the volumes are: Volume 1 (237 pp.): Critical introduction to the Works by Dr. Barry Menikoff; New Arabian Nights Volume 2 (171 pp.): Treasure Island Volume 3 (158 pp.): The Dynamiter Volume 4 (144 pp.): Prince Otto Volume 5 (157 pp.): Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Fables; other stories and fragments Volume 6 (175 pp.): Kidnapped Volume 7 (218 pp.): Catriona Volume 8 (165 pp.): The Merry Men and other stories Volume 9 (195 pp.): The Black Arrow Volume 10 (288 pp.): The Wrecker Volume 11 (154 pp.): The Wrong Box; The Body-Snatchers Volume 12 (180 pp.): The Master of Ballantrae Volume 13 (205 pp.): Island Nights' Entertainments; The Beach of Falesá (unexpurgated); The Misadventures of John Nicholson Volume 14 (155 pp.): The Ebb-Tide; The Story of a Lie Volume 15 (286 pp.): St. Ives Volume 16 (189 pp.): Weir of Hermiston; some unfinished stories Volume 17 (179 pp.): An Inland Voyage; Travels with a Donkey Volume 18 (187 pp.): The Amateur Emigrant; The Old and New Pacific Capitals; The Silverado Squatters; The Silverado Diary (excerpts) Volume 19 (224 pp.): Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin; Records of a Family of Engineers Volume 20 (222 pp.): In the South Seas Volume 21 (249 pp.): Vailima Papers including Letters from the South Seas and A Footnote to History; An Object of Pity Volume 22 (244 pp.): Poems, volume I. Volume 23 (306 pp.): Poems, volume II. Volume 24 (239 pp.): Plays Volume 25 (146 pp.): Virginibus Puerisque Volume 26 (137 pp.): Ethical Studies; Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Volume 27 (178 pp.): Familiar Studies of Men and Books Volume 28 (146 pp.): Essays Literary and Critical Volume 29 (138 pp.): Memories and Portraits and other fragments Volume 30 (139 pp.): Further Memories Volume 31 (176 pp.): Letters, volume I. Volume 32 (245 pp.): Letters, volume II. Volume 33 (243 pp.): Letters, volume III. Volume 34 (192 pp.): Letters, volume IV. Volume 35 (139 pp.): Letters, volume V. All of the Works have been newly typeset for this edition. The texts have been taken from the Tusitala Edition prepared by Lloyd Osborne with Stevenson's widow (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., inter alia, 1923, 35 vols.), with the exception of the unexpurgated version of The Beach of Falesá, which has been taken from the 1987 Stanford University Press (edited by Barry Menikoff) by permission of Stanford University Press, and An Object of Pity, which has been taken from the 1900 New York Dodd, Mead edition. Dr. Barry Menikoff (University of Hawaii) has contributed an introduction to the Works as a whole, printed in volume 1.

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson and Theories of Reading written by Glenda Norquay and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glenda Norquay presents fresh interpretations of Stevenson's literary essays, of major works including The Master of Ballantrae, and some of his more neglected fiction such as St Ives and The Wrecker, as well as illuminating our understanding of his role within debates over popular fiction, romance and reading pleasure. She offers an unusual combination of literary history and reception theory and argues that Stevenson both exemplified tensions within the literary market of his time and anticipated later developments in reading theory. By combining the study of nineteenth-century cultural politics with detailed analysis of his Scottish Calvinism, Stevenson is reassessed as both a Victorian and Scottish writer.

Download or read book A Study of Robert Louis Stevenson s Theory of Setting and of His Use of Setting in His Fiction written by Margaret Mary O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Roger G. Swearingen and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pocket R L S Being Favourite Passages from the Works of Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a series of short passages taken from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as 'Treasure Island', 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'Kidnapped' and 'A Child's Garden of Verses'.

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson written by David S. Robb and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of a series of discussions of the prose fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson, from his first book, New Arabian Nights, to the last short novel published in his lifetime, The Ebb-Tide. All his best-known novels are covered, as well as a selection of his lesser-known works. The focus is on the works themselves, rather than on Stevenson's admittedly fascinating life, which is touched on only so as to provide a context for his writing. It is arranged by the dates when the works were written, rather than when they were published, so as to provide an outline sketch of his career as a writer. The emphasis is on the diversity and energy of Stevenson's creativity, without seeking to overemphasize distinctions frequently applied to him in the past, such as that between his 'stories for boys' and books apparently written for adults.

Download or read book Robert Lewis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure written by Robert Kiely and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson The Complete Novels The Giants of Literature Book 17 written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-25 with total page 2920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E-artnow presents to you the greatest adventure books of all time, psychological thrillers and historical novels by one of the greatest writers of English literature. This edition includes: Treasure Island Prince Otto Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Kidnapped Catriona The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Master of Ballantrae The Wrong Box The Wrecker The Ebb-Tide Weir of Hermiston St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England The Great North Road Heathercat The Young Chevalier Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.

Download or read book Studies in the Theory and Practice of Prose Fiction 1600 1640 written by John Joseph O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book R L Stevenson a Critical Study written by Frank Swinnerton and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson is one of the most beloved and influential writers of all time, and this book provides a critical examination of his life and work. Written by literary critic Frank Swinnerton, this book is a must-read for fans of Stevenson and anyone interested in the history of English literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson Life Writing and Adventure Fiction written by Felix Krenke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: From ‘South Seas’ Fictions to Pacific Island Writing, language: English, abstract: This essay serves as an in-depth analysis and elaboration of the topics dealt with in the presentation held in the seminar titled “From South Seas Fiction to Pacific Island writing” about Robert Louis Stevenson. Thus, it follows that this work is concerned with the life of RLS, but also with his literary work and how the former has influenced the latter. Moreover, Treasure Island will be explored and contextualized against the backdrop of the genre Adventure Fiction. For said purpose it is necessary to briefly define the most common aspects of the genre at hand. These common aspects will be explored and RLS’s literary works in the genre and his personal approach shall be outlined later on.

Download or read book The Complete Works of R L Stevenson Illustrated written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 9577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Complete Works of R.L. Stevenson (Illustrated) is a comprehensive collection of the literary masterpieces by this renowned author, showcasing his diverse talents as a writer. From adventure tales like Treasure Island to psychological thrillers such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson's works exhibit a unique blend of suspense, wit, and keen observation of human nature. The inclusion of illustrations enhances the reading experience, bringing Stevenson's vivid imagery to life in a new light. Situating Stevenson within the late 19th-century literary context, this collection highlights his contributions to the genres of both children's literature and adult fiction, making it a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts alike. Stevenson's literary style, characterized by its engaging storytelling and moral complexity, remains influential in modern literature, making this collection a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of the novel as an art form.

Download or read book The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson’s brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as well as “The Beach of Falesá” and Stevenson’s previously uncollected stories. Arthur Conan Doyle has written that “[Stevenson’s] short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed.” This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes explanatory notes, a Scots’ Glossary, and a unique appendix dedicated to Stevenson’s influence on the Oxford English Dictionary.

Download or read book A theory of prose fiction written by Robert Saunders Dowst and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson Man and Author with Special Emphasis Upon His Theories of Fiction and the Manner in which He Carried Them Out in His Major Works written by Andrew Roth and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: