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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume focuses on various aspects of Stevenson’s family history, particularly the lives of his ancestors who were involved in engineering and other trades in Scotland.

"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16" by Stevenson is a collection of essays and memoirs. This volume focuses on various aspects of Stevenson’s family history, particularly the lives of his ancestors who were involved in engineering and other trades in Scotland.

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From the thirteenth century onwards, the name, under the various disguises of Stevinstoun, Stevensoun, Stevensonne, Stenesone, and Stewinsoune, spread across Scotland from the mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it occurs as a place-name. There is a parish of Stevenston in Cunningham; a second place of the name in the Barony of Bothwell in Lanark; a third on Lyne, above Drochil Castle; the fourth on the Tyne, near Traprain Law. Stevenson of Stevenson (co. Lanark) swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296, and the last of that family died after the Restoration. Stevensons of Hirdmanshiels, in Midlothian, rode in the Bishops’ Raid of Aberlady, served as jurors, stood bail for neighbours—Hunter of Polwood, for instance—and became extinct about the same period, or possibly earlier. A Stevenson of Luthrie and another of Pitroddie make their bows, give their names, and vanish. And by the year 1700 it does not appear that any acre of Scots land was vested in any Stevenson.1

Contents

  1. 01Records of a Family of Engineers
  2. 02Introduction
  3. 03Chapter I
  4. 04Chapter II
  5. 05Chapter III
  6. 06Additional Memories and Portraits
  7. 07Additional Memories and Portraits
  8. 08I
  9. 09Random Memories
  10. 10II
  11. 11Random Memories
  12. 12III
  13. 13A Chapter on Dreams
  14. 14IV
  15. 15Beggars
  16. 16V
  17. 17The Lantern-Bearers
  18. 18Later Essays
  19. 19Later Essays
  20. 20I
  21. 21Fontainebleau
  22. 22II
  23. 23A Note on Realism
  24. 24III
  25. 25On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature
  26. 26IV
  27. 27The Morality of the Profession of Letters
  28. 28V
  29. 29Books Which Have Influenced Me
  30. 30VI
  31. 31The Day After to-Morrow
  32. 32VII
  33. 33Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art
  34. 34VIII
  35. 35Pulvis Et Umbra
  36. 36IX
  37. 37A Christmas Sermon
  38. 38X
  39. 39Father Damien
  40. 40XI
  41. 41My First Book—“Treasure Island”
  42. 42XII
  43. 43The Genesis of “the Master of Ballantrae”
  44. 44XIII
  45. 45Random Memories: Rosa Quo Locorum
  46. 46XIV
  47. 47Reflections and Remarks on Human Life
  48. 48XV
  49. 49The Ideal House
  50. 50Lay Morals
  51. 51Lay Morals
  52. 52Chapter I
  53. 53Chapter II
  54. 54Chapter III
  55. 55Chapter IV
  56. 56Prayers
  57. 57Written for Family Use at Vailima
  58. 58Prayers
  59. 59Written for Family Use at Vailima

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
492 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers