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Discusses umbrellas, John Knox, nature, idleness, love, Walt Whitman, Robert Burns, Samuel Pepys, dogs, art, and engineering
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It is good finally to have a selectionroughly a quarterof Stevenson's essays, otherwise available only in scattered reprint collections. Mostly miscellaneous magazine pieces, the essays range from humorous sketches to autobiographical reflections to moral commentary. Many convey a Romantic criticism of Victorian respectability. But their value lies mainly in their vivacity and style, which can be attributed to the storyteller's craft: they exhibit a descriptive immediacy and, in the studies of Burns, Whitman, and Pepys, a strong sense of character. The best are serious without pretention, holding a place of their own in the prose of the 1870s and 1880s. With a helpful introduction and chronology. Donald Ray, Manhattanville Coll. Lib., Purchase, N.Y.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0374257922
- ISBN 13 9780374257927
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages289
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