A Child's Garden of Verses: Abridged Edition for Boys and Girls - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Mars, E

 
9781646794232: A Child's Garden of Verses: Abridged Edition for Boys and Girls

Synopsis

"The rain is falling all around,

It falls on field and tree,

It rains on the umbrellas here,

And on the ships at sea."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses


This jacketed hardcover edition of A Child's Garden of Verses-Abridged for Boys and Girls (1902) by Robert Louis Stevenson contains the first 42 of the 65 poems in the original edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's much-loved classic. With numerous illustrations (some in color) by E. Mars and M. H. Squire, its shorter length has made it at the time a popular choice for classroom use.

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About the Author

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers, but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), Treasure Island (1883), The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), and Kidnapped (1886).

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9781646794225: A Child's Garden of Verses: Abridged Edition for Boys and Girls

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ISBN 10:  1646794222 ISBN 13:  9781646794225
Publisher: Cosimo Classics, 1885
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