Virginibus Puerisque
Robert Louis Stevenson
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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Memories and PortraitsPersonal 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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Stevenson explains his craft: style, rhythm, the morality of the profession and how he wrote Treasure Island. Short and practical, still useful for anyone who writes.
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Essays on ethics, money and how to live honestly, plus pieces such as Father Damien, his famous open letter defending the priest of the Molokai leper colony.
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Young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map and sails for a hidden island with a crew led in secret by Long John Silver. The 1883 adventure that shaped every pirate story since, in a clean modern edition with painted cover art.
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