The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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English Originals Foreign Literature TravelogueAdventure JourneyFate and FortuneLiterary GiantsHuman NatureComplex HumanitySlow ReadingCollected WorksExotic CultureIsland Life

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24 by StevensonAuthor: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Mar 28, 2010

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This is Volume 24 of the Swanston Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's works, a free eBook from Project Gutenberg. The edition is convenient for searching and citation, and suits readers studying the textual history of Stevenson's works or filling in his nonfiction, essays, and correspondence. It is best treated as part of a complete edition rather than a standalone famous title: check the table of contents to confirm what this volume contains, then read it against Stevenson's life and the context of nineteenth-century English literature to grasp his style and intellectual trajectory. The electronic edition works well for excerpting and comparative reading, but does not offer the experience of handling the printed volumes.

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What kind of collection is this? It is Volume 24 of the Swanston Edition of Stevenson's works, an English public-domain eBook released by Project Gutenberg. The specific contents must be checked in the volume's table of contents; the volume number alone does not identify a particular famous work.
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About the author

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 Author

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a nineteenth-century British writer known for adventure fiction and poetry. His representative work Treasure Island established a classic model for treasure-hunt adventure stories and has circulated widely in many translations; the library also holds the Spanish version La isla del tesoro and the German version Die Schatzinsel: Roman. Another representative work, A Child's Garden of Verses, writes from a child's perspective about play, imagination, and everyday feelings, with fresh language and natural rhythm, and is a common reader in English children's poetry. The library holds as many as 101 of his works, showing the variety of his subjects and forms. Public information is limited, so details of his life and education are not elaborated here; overall, his writing combines thrilling narrative with a lyrical tone, being strongly story-driven yet readable aloud, and has had a lasting influence on later adventure literature and children's literature.