The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson E-Book

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 17588

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 19100 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Treasure Island • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Kidnapped • A Child's Garden of Verses • Essays in the Art of Writing • The Black Arrow: A Tale of Two Roses • New Arabian Nights • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes • A Child's Garden of Verses • David Balfour • The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses • The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale • In the South Seas • Essays of Travel • The Wrecker and Lloyd Osbourne • The Wrong Box and Lloyd Osbourne • A Child's Garden of Verses • Songs of Travel, and Other Verses • The Merry Men, and Other Tales and Fables • Island Nights' Entertainments • A Child's Garden of Verses • From the The Works of - Swanston Edition • Essays • Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays • The Silverado Squatters • Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes • The Ebb-Tide: A Trio And Quartette and Lloyd Osbourne • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde • The Dynamiter and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson • A Christmas Sermon • Fables • An Inland Voyage • Familiar Studies of Men and Books • Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers • Tales and Fantasies • St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England • The Waif Woman • Prince Otto, a Romance • Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance • Memories and Portraits • Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu • Records of a Family of Engineers • A Child's Garden of Verses • Vailima Letters • A Child's Garden of Verses • Underwoods • The Sea Fogs • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa • Lay Morals, and Other Papers • Ballads • A Child's Garden of Verses • Correspondence • A Child's Garden of Verses • The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson and William Ernest Henley • Prayers Written At Vailima, and A Lowden Sabbath Morn • The Cow • etc.

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Table of Contents

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME I

INTRODUCTION TO THE SWANSTON EDITION

AN INLAND VOYAGE

DEDICATION

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

AN INLAND VOYAGE

ANTWERP TO BOOM

ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL

THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE

AT MAUBEUGE

ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED

TO QUARTES

PONT-SUR-SAMBRE

WE ARE PEDLARS

PONT-SUR-SAMBRE

THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT

ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED

TO LANDRECIES

AT LANDRECIES

SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL

CANAL BOATS

THE OISE IN FLOOD

ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE

A BY-DAY

ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOÎTE

THE COMPANY AT TABLE

DOWN THE OISE

TO MOY

LA FÈRE OF CURSED MEMORY

DOWN THE OISE

THROUGH THE GOLDEN VALLEY

NOYON CATHEDRAL

DOWN THE OISE

TO COMPIÈGNE

AT COMPIÈGNE

CHANGED TIMES

DOWN THE OISE

CHURCH INTERIORS

PRÉCY AND THE MARIONNETTES

BACK TO THE WORLD

EPILOGUE

TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES

VELAY

TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY

THE DONKEY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE

THE GREEN DONKEY-DRIVER

I HAVE A GOAD

UPPER GÉVAUDAN

A CAMP IN THE DARK

CHEYLARD AND LUC

OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS

FATHER APOLLONARIS

THE MONKS

THE BOARDERS

UPPER GÉVAUDAN

ACROSS THE GOULET

A NIGHT AMONG THE PINES

THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS

ACROSS THE LOZÈRE

PONT DE MONTVERT

IN THE VALLEY OF THE TARN

FLORAC

IN THE VALLEY OF THE MIMENTE

THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY

THE LAST DAY

FAREWELL, MODESTINE!

A MOUNTAIN TOWN IN FRANCE

A FRAGMENT

1879

EDINBURGH

PICTURESQUE NOTES

EDINBURGH

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER II

OLD TOWN: THE LANDS

CHAPTER III

THE PARLIAMENT CLOSE

CHAPTER IV

LEGENDS

CHAPTER V

GREYFRIARS

CHAPTER VI

NEW TOWN: TOWN AND COUNTRY

CHAPTER VII

THE VILLA QUARTERS

CHAPTER VIII

THE CALTON HILL

CHAPTER IX

WINTER AND NEW YEAR

CHAPTER X

TO THE PENTLAND HILLS

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME II

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME TWO

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

THE OLD AND NEW PACIFIC CAPITALS

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS

“VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE” AND OTHER PAPERS

THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

PART I FROM THE CLYDE TO SANDY HOOK

THE AMATEUR EMIGRANT

THE SECOND CABIN

EARLY IMPRESSIONS

STEERAGE SCENES

STEERAGE TYPES

THE SICK MAN

THE STOWAWAYS

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND REVIEW

NEW YORK

PART II ACROSS THE PLAINS

NOTES BY THE WAY TO COUNCIL BLUFFS

THE EMIGRANT TRAIN

THE PLAINS OF NEBRASKA

THE DESERT OF WYOMING

FELLOW PASSENGERS

DESPISED RACES

TO THE GOLDEN GATES

THE OLD AND NEW PACIFIC CAPITALS

THE OLD AND NEW PACIFIC CAPITALS

I

MONTEREY

MONTEREY

II

SAN FRANCISCO

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS

TO

VIRGIL WILLIAMS

AND

DORA NORTON WILLIAMS

THESE SKETCHES ARE AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

BY THEIR FRIEND

THE AUTHOR

THE SILVERADO SQUATTERS

IN THE VALLEY

I

CALISTOGA

II

THE PETRIFIED FOREST

III

NAPA WINE

IV

THE SCOT ABROAD

WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

I

TO INTRODUCE MR. KELMAR

II

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF SILVERADO

III

THE RETURN

THE ACT OF SQUATTING

THE HUNTER’S FAMILY

THE SEA-FOGS

THE TOLL HOUSE

A STARRY DRIVE

EPISODES IN THE STORY OF A MINE

TOILS AND PLEASURES

“VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE”

AND OTHER PAPERS

DEDICATION

I

“VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE”

I

II

III

IV

II

CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH

III

AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS

IV

ORDERED SOUTH

V

ÆS TRIPLEX

VI

EL DORADO

VII

THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS

VIII

SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN

IX

CHILD’S PLAY

X

WALKING TOURS

XI

PAN’S PIPES

XII

A PLEA FOR GAS LAMPS

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

SWANSTON EDITION

VOLUME III

THE WORKS OF

ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME THREE

LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI