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Download or read book Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1924-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: A collection of essays and sketches on a variety of subjects, "Memories and Portraits" provides valuable insights into the life and mind of one of the most important writers of the 19th century. Stevenson's essays offer a window into his creative process and the cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Key Aspects of the Book "Memories and Portraits": Collection of Essays and Sketches: The book provides a comprehensive collection of essays and sketches on a variety of subjects, including literature, art, and history, shedding light on the complex and diverse intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Insight into the Creative Process: Stevenson's essays offer valuable insight into his creative process, enriching our understanding of his works and influence. Cultural and Intellectual Context: The book sheds light on the cultural and intellectual contexts of Stevenson's time, including the impact of scientific discoveries, social and political movements, and evolving cultural values. Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer who lived in the late 19th century. His works, including "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," have become beloved classics of British literature.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and portraits Random memories Fontainebleau Memoirs of himself Selections from his note book written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle - taken together, they build up a face that "I have loved long since and lost awhile," the face of what was once myself.Includes a biography of the author.
Download or read book Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Memories and Portraits' is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. His best-known works include 'Treasure Island', 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', 'Kidnapped' and 'A Child's Garden of Verses'.
Download or read book Memories Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Memories and Portraits Memories of Himself Selection from his Notebook written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Home", "Some College Memories", "Old Morality", "Q College Magazine", "An Old Scotch Gardener", "Pastoral", "The Manse", "Memories of an Islet", "Thomas Stevenson", "Talk and Talkers: First Paper", "Talk and Talkers: Second Paper", etcetera. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was an influential Scottish writer who is most famous for writing "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and portraits Random memories and other essays Records of a family of engineers written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins" Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson (1818-87), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella (born Balfour; 1829-97). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson was to change the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis," and in 1873, he dropped "Balfour." Lighthouse design was the family's profession: Thomas's father (Robert's grandfather) was the famous Robert Stevenson, and both of Thomas's brothers (Robert's uncles) Alan and David, were in the same field.[9] Indeed, even Thomas's maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, had been in the same profession. However, Robert's mother's family were not of the same profession. Margaret's natal family, the Balfours, were gentry, tracing their lineage back to a certain Alexander Balfour who had held the lands of Inchyra in Fife in the fifteenth century. Margaret's father, Lewis Balfour (1777-1860), was a minister of the Church of Scotland at nearby Colinton, and her siblings included the physician George William Balfour and the marine engineer James Balfour. Stevenson spent the greater part of his boyhood holidays in his maternal grandfather's house. "Now I often wonder," wrote Stevenson, "what I inherited from this old minister. I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them." Lewis Balfour and his daughter both had weak chests, so they often needed to stay in warmer climates for their health. Stevenson inherited a tendency to coughs and fevers, exacerbated when the family moved to a damp, chilly house at 1 Inverleith Terrace in 1851. The family moved again to the sunnier 17 Heriot Row when Stevenson was six years old, but the tendency to extreme sickness in winter remained with him until he was eleven. Illness would be a recurrent feature of his adult life and left him extraordinarily thin. Contemporary views were that he had tuberculosis, but more recent views are that it was bronchiectasis or even sarcoidosis. Stevenson's parents were both devout and serious Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its adherence to Calvinist principles. His nurse, Alison Cunningham (known as Cummy), was more fervently religious. Her Calvinism and folk beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a precocious concern for religion.But she also cared for him tenderly in illness, reading to him from Bunyan and the Bible as he lay sick in bed and telling tales of the Covenanters. Stevenson recalled this time of sickness in "The Land of Counterpane" in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), dedicating the book to his nurse.An only child, strange-looking and eccentric, Stevenson found it hard to fit in when he was sent to a nearby school at age six, a problem repeated at age eleven when he went on to the Edinburgh Academy;
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Download or read book Memories and Portraits written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two recent books 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 so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael's Bay, the house of the last Cornish-speaking woman.
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Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and portraits Virginibus puerisque and other papers written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
