Robert Louis Stevenson
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literature enthusiasts who have read Stevenson's major works and want to understand early criticism
- Students of English literature who need a sample of nineteenth-century biographical writing
- Readers who enjoy classical English prose and are willing to read slowly and carefully
- Readers researching the reception history and criticism history of Stevenson
Not a good fit for
- Readers who know nothing of Stevenson's works and need an introductory biography
- Biography readers hoping for extensive letters, chronologies, and textual details
- Readers who prefer modern vernacular expression and are not comfortable with classical English sentence structures
Reading tips
- Read a Stevenson novel first, then read this book to compare criticism with your impressions of the works.
- Read in installments by chapter, noting the critic's core judgments after each chapter.
- Skip unfamiliar author and work names at first to maintain reading momentum.
- Use nineteenth-century English literary history materials to fill in background, then reread.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861–1922) was a British scholar, poet and writer. He taught English literature at the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow, became the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford in 1904, and was knighted in 1911. Six of his works are included here, spanning literary criticism, biography, military history and lectures. Milton and Robert Louis Stevenson show his combined interest in biography and criticism, while Style and Romance: Two Lectures reflect his sustained attention to literary form and aesthetic questions. The first volume of The War in the Air turns to military history, and England and the War collects related lectures. His writing is clear and carefully crafted, both scholarly and readable, and holds a place in early twentieth-century British criticism and biographical writing.
