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Chatto & Windus
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2023
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English
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This is Stevenson's last (and unfinished) novel, a powerful story of family rebellion and forbidden love, set in Edinburgh and the Scots/English borderlands in the early 19th century. Tragedy unfolds with deep conflict within the Weir family. Eager young law student Archie Weir publicly denounces the capital punishment favored by his father, “hanging judge”, Lord Hermiston. Stevenson died suddenly, halfway through writing the novel. This edition...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is best known as the author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and Kidnapped, but his essays comprise an oft-overlooked trove of gems, intriguing in their content and generous in their scope. This collection of nearly three dozen of Stevenson's best essays-the only anthology of its kind- spans his brief life and includes many of his most celebrated pieces and some others previously unpublished....
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Master of Ballantrae is a Gothic romance of adventure and revenge. Brothers Henry and James Durie take opposite sides during the Jacobite uprising of 1745 to ensure the survival of their estate regardless of the outcome of the war. Believing that James had died along with the hopes of the Stuarts at the Battle of Culloden, Henry acquires his brother's property....
Author
Publisher
Chatto and Windus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG
VOLUME ONE
CONTENTS:
Introduction to the Swanston Edition
Dedication
Preface To The First Edition
AN INLAND VOYAGE
Antwerp To Boom7
On The Willebroek Canal11
The Royal Sport Nautique16
At Maubeuge21
On The Sambre Canalised: To Quartes26
Pont-sur-sambre:
We Are Pedlars31
The Travelling Merchant36
On The Sambre Canalised: To Landrecies41
At Landrecies46
Sambre And Oise Canal:...
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Español
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Agudas reflexiones sobre la escritura y la lectura, escritas entre 1881 y 1894, publicadas de forma aislada y reunidas póstumamente por sus editores: el arte literario y sus condicionantes, por qué un texto literario es bueno, qué se esconde tras la música de las palabras, la honestidad en el escritor y el amor a la verdad, etc. Se recoge aquí una selección de esos ensayos.
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Primera entrega de los ensayos reunidos del autor de La isla del tesoro. Empezamos con su universo literario. La arquitectura de un escritor.
Narrador inolvidable, poeta valioso, viajero y acuñador de anécdotas biográficas, para conocer completamente el universo Stevenson es necesario visitar también su faceta ensayística, a la altura del resto de su obra, didáctica y cercana, pero también rigurosa y precisa. Envidiable.
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