1908-1910 A Collection of Works from Robert Louis Stevenson

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Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Four volumes. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1893), as well as the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885). This set contains: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, 1908. Twenty-eighth impression. Offering Stevenson's playful and reflective writings on societal conventions and his own personal experiences of the time, including 'Crabbed Age and Youth', 'The English Admirals', 'Ordered South' and 'El Dorado'. Familiar Studies of Men and Books, 1909. Twentieth edition. A collection of essays covering the literature and biographies of nine prominent men, being Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshida-Torajiro, Francois Villon, Charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys and John Knox. Memories and Portraits, 1909. Fourteenth edition. Further essays on important individuals and memories featuring in Stevenson's own life, exploring subjects such as Old Mortality, Pastoral, Memoirs of an Islet, Thomas Stevenson, and The Character of Dogs. Across the Plains With Other Memories and Essays, 1910. Fourteenth edition. A collection of reflective essays beginning with a vivid narrative of the emigrant experience as Stevenson recounts his journey from New York to San Francisco. Bound by Bumpus Ltd, Oxford Street, London.