The Master of Ballantrae Annotated

The Master of Ballantrae Annotated PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is an 1889 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored.

The Scottish Novels

The Scottish Novels PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 184767559X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 869

Book Description
Introduced by Jenni Calder and Roderick Watson. Kidnapped – Catriona – The Master of Ballantrae – Weir of Hermiston These four great novels take us deep into Robert Louis Stevenson’s imaginative and bitter-sweet relationship with his native country. Kidnapped, and its sequel Catriona, are renowned the world over as supreme stories of adventure and romance. On another level they also explore the subtle divisions of Scottish history and character in the eighteenth century, and (some would say) the present day. The Master of Ballantrae takes a darker and more disturbing turn, with its tale of rival brothers caught in a web of hatred, obsession, love and betrayal which draws them to their end in the frozen wastes of North America. Stevenson’s fascination with the divided nature of the human self (most obviously demonstrated in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) appears again in the Weir of Hermiston with its terrible confrontation between a father and his son. With an unsurpassed combination of physical adventure and psychological insight, The Scottish Novels have moved and thrilled readers and writers from Stevenson’s contemporaries to the present day.

Underwoods

Underwoods PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
"Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not mine." -Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods Underwoods (1887), by Robert Louis Stevenson, is a collection of original poetry that Stevenson wrote during one of the most prolific periods of his career. Like his more famous collection, A Child's Garden of Verses, it was inspired by the author's own childhood and is written in both English and his native Scots.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson PDF Author: Claire Harman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
The short life of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction: his travels, illness, struggles to become a writer, relationships with his volatile wife and step-family, friendships and quarrels have fascinated readers for over a century. In his time he was both engineer and aesthete, dutiful son and reckless lover, Scotsman and South Sea Islander, Covenanter and atheist. Stevenson's books, including Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Kidnapped, have achieved world fame; others -- The Master of Ballantrae, A Child's Garden of Verses, Travels with a Donkey -- remain all-time favourites.

The Master of Ballantrae Illustrated

The Master of Ballantrae Illustrated PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The Master of Ballantrae is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745. He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson PDF Author: Richard Ambrosini
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299212238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries reinstates Stevenson at the center of critical debate and demonstrates the sophistication of his writings and the present relevance of his kaleidoscopic achievements. While most young readers know Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) as the author of Treasure Island, few people outside of academia are aware of the breadth of his literary output. The contributors to Robert Louis Stevenson: Writer of Boundaries look, with varied critical approaches, at the whole range of his literary production and unite to confer scholarly legitimacy on this enormously influential writer who has been neglected by critics. As the editors point out in their Introduction, Stevenson reinvented the “personal essay” and the “walking tour essay,” in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance that broke completely with Victorian moralism. His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island, provocatively combined a popular genre (subverting its imperialist ideology) with a self-conscious literary approach. Stevenson, one of Scotland’s most prolific writers, was very effectively excluded from the canon by his twentieth-century successors and rejected by Anglo-American Modernist writers and critics for his play with popular genres and for his non-serious metaliterary brilliance. While Stevenson’s critical recognition has been slowly increasing, there have been far fewer published single-volume studies of his works than those of his contemporaries, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.

The Moon

The Moon PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Harper Trophy
ISBN: 9780064430982
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Illustrations portray a father and daughter going fishing against a background of Stevenson's poem about nightly happenings in the light of the moon.

Catriona

Catriona PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description

The Land of Counterpane

The Land of Counterpane PDF Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781609731526
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Presents an illustrated poem from Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Child's Garden of Verses."
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