The Art of Writing and Other Essays - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1500555843 ISBN 13: 9781500555849

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

The Art of Writing and Other Essays is a classic essay collection by Robert Louis Stevenson on the subject of literary criticism. On some technical elements of style in literature -- The morality of the profession of letters -- Books which have influenced me -- A note on realism -- My first book: 'Treasure Island' -- The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae' -- Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." -wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1500555843
• ISBN 13: 9781500555849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 54