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Nonfiction · 1882

Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading time
about 7 h
Length
96,112 words · 164 pages
Structure
22 chapters · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Familiar Studies of Men and Books, first published in 1882, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Epigraph
  2. Preface
  3. Victor Hugo’s Romances
  4. Some Aspects of Robert Burns
  5. Walt Whitman
  6. I
  7. II
  8. III
  9. IV
  10. V
  11. VI
  12. Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions
  13. I
  14. II
  15. III
  16. IV
  17. V
  18. Yoshida-Torajiro
  19. François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker
  20. Charles of Orleans
  21. I
  22. II
  23. III
  24. IV
  25. V
  26. Samuel Pepys
  27. John Knox and His Relations to Women
  28. Footnotes

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Robert Louis Stevenson

1850–1894 · Victorian

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.

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