Across the Plains
Robert Louis Stevenson
His 1879 train journey from New York to California as a poor emigrant, plus essays such as The Lantern-Bearers and A Chapter on Dreams, where he tells how Jekyll and Hyde came to him.
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Short travel pieces from Scotland, England, France and America, including The Amateur Emigrant's sea voyage and his famous essay Walking Tours. A good companion to his longer travel books.
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Essays on love, marriage, youth and idleness, including An Apology for Idlers and Aes Triplex. Stevenson at his wittiest, arguing for a life well enjoyed.
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Personal essays about his Edinburgh childhood, old friends and the books that shaped him, including Some College Memories and A Gossip on Romance. Stevenson looking back at how he became a writer.
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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.
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