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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 17

Robert Louis Stevenson

This volume, part of a comprehensive collection of Stevenson’s works, focuses on the tumultuous history of Samoa during a critical eight-year period marked by internal discord and foreign intervention.

"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 17" by Stevenson is a historical account. This volume, part of a comprehensive collection of Stevenson’s works, focuses on the tumultuous history of Samoa during a critical eight-year period marked by internal discord and foreign intervention.

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The story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense. And yet, for all its actuality and the part played in it by mails and telegraphs and iron war-ships, the ideas and the manners of the native actors date back before the Roman Empire. They are Christians, church-goers, singers of hymns at family worship, hardy cricketers; their books are printed in London by Spottiswoode, Trübner, or the Tract Society; but in most other points they are the contemporaries of our tattooed ancestors who drove their chariots on the wrong side of the Roman wall. We have passed the feudal system; they are not yet clear of the patriarchal. We are in the thick of the age of finance; they are in a period of communism. And this makes them hard to understand.

Contents

  1. 01Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
  2. 02Chapter I
  3. 03The Elements of Discord: Native
  4. 04Chapter II
  5. 05The Elements of Discord: Foreign
  6. 06Chapter III
  7. 07The Sorrows of Laupepa, 1883 to 1887
  8. 08Chapter IV
  9. 09Brandeis
  10. 10Chapter V
  11. 11The Battle of Matautu
  12. 12Chapter VI
  13. 13Last Exploits of Becker
  14. 14Chapter VII
  15. 15The Samoan Camps
  16. 16Chapter VIII
  17. 17Affairs of Laulii and Fangalii
  18. 18Chapter IX
  19. 19“Furor Consularis”
  20. 20Chapter X
  21. 21The Hurricane
  22. 22Chapter XI
  23. 23Laupepa and Mataafa
  24. 24Island Nights’
  25. 25Entertainments
  26. 26The Beach of Falesá
  27. 27(Being the Narrative of a South Sea Trader)
  28. 28The Beach of Falesá
  29. 29Chapter I
  30. 30A South Sea Bridal
  31. 31Chapter II
  32. 32The Ban
  33. 33Chapter III
  34. 34The Missionary
  35. 35Chapter IV
  36. 36Devil-Work
  37. 37Chapter V
  38. 38Night in the Bush
  39. 39The Bottle Imp
  40. 40The Bottle Imp
  41. 41The Isle of Voices
  42. 42The Isle of Voices
  43. 43End of Vol. XVII

About this edition

Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
319 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers