Nonfiction · 1887
Memories and Portraits
Personal essays on the people, places and books that shaped a writer's mind — a Scottish childhood, college days in Edinburgh, an old gardener, the craft of fiction itself — among the most directly autobiographical prose its author ever published.
Robert Louis Stevenson published Memories and Portraits in 1887.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Note
- Chapter I — The Foreigner at Home
- Chapter II — Some College Memories
- Chapter III — Old Mortality
- Chapter IV — A College Magazine
- Chapter V — An Old Scotch Gardener
- Chapter VI — Pastoral
- Chapter VII — The Manse
- Chapter VIII — Memoirs of an Islet
- Chapter IX — Thomas Stevenson—Civil Engineer
- Chapter X — Talk and Talkers
- Chapter XI — Talk and Talkers
- Chapter XII — The Character of Dogs
- Chapter XIII — A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured
- Chapter XIV — A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s
- Chapter XV — A Gossip on Romance
- Chapter XVI — A Humble Remonstrance
- Footnotes
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About the author
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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