Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Title: Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Description: Essays on writers and thinkers he admired, among them Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Thoreau and Francois Villon. Literary criticism written with a storyteller's warmth.

Pages: 168

Size: 0.88 MB

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