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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23
The letters reveal not only his observations but also his character as he interacts with family and friends, hinting at the writer's evolving style and sensibilities.
"The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23" by Stevenson is a collection of letters and writings reflecting on the author’s early life, primarily. The letters reveal not only his observations but also his character as he interacts with family and friends, hinting at the writer's evolving style and sensibilities.
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The following section consists chiefly of extracts from the correspondence and journals addressed by Louis Stevenson, as a lad of eighteen to twenty-two, to his father and mother during summer excursions to the Scottish coast or to the Continent. There exist enough of them to fill a volume; but it is not in letters of this kind to his family that a young man unbosoms himself most freely, and these are perhaps not quite devoid of the qualities of the guide-book and the descriptive exercise. Nevertheless they seem to me to contain enough signs of the future master-writer, enough of character, observation, and skill in expression, to make a certain number worth giving by way of an opening chapter to the present book. Among them are interspersed four or five of a different character addressed to other correspondents, and chiefly to his lifelong friend and intimate, Mr. Charles Baxter.
Contents
- 01Introduction
- 02The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
- 031868-1882
- 04The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
- 05I
- 06Student Days at Edinburgh
- 07Travels and Excursions
- 081868-1873
- 09II
- 10Student Days—Continued
- 11New Friendships—Ordered South
- 12July 1873-May 1874
- 13III
- 14Student Days—Concluded
- 15Home Again—Literature and Law
- 16May 1874—June 1875
- 17IV
- 18Advocate and Author
- 19Edinburgh—Paris—Fontainebleau
- 20July 1875-July 1879
- 21V
- 22The Amateur Emigrant
- 23S.s. Devonia—Monterey and San Francisco—Marriage
- 24July 1879-July 1880
- 25VI
- 26Alpine Winters and Highland Summers
- 27August 1880-October 1882
- 28End of Vol. XXIII.
About this edition
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 416 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers