Fiction · 1897
St. Ives
Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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Contents
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- Chapter I — A Tale of a Lion Rampant
- Chapter II — A Tale of a Pair of Scissors
- Chapter III — Major Chevenix Comes Into the Story, and Goguelat Goes Out
- Chapter IV — St. Ives Gets a Bundle of Bank Notes
- Chapter V — St. Ives Is Shown a House
- Chapter VI — The Escape
- Chapter VII — Swanston Cottage
- Chapter VIII — The Hen-House
- Chapter IX — Three Is Company, and Four None
- Chapter X — The Drovers
- Chapter XI — The Great North Road
- Chapter XII — I Follow a Covered Cart Nearly to My Destination
- Chapter XIII — I Meet Two of My Countrymen
- Chapter XIV — Travels of the Covered Cart
- Chapter XV — The Adventure of the Attorney’s Clerk
- Chapter XVI — The Home-Coming of Mr. Rowley’s Viscount
- Chapter XVII — The Despatch-Box
- Chapter XVIII — Mr. Romaine Calls Me Names
- Chapter XIX — The Devil and All at Amersham Place
- Chapter XX — After the Storm
- Chapter XXI — I Become the Owner of a Claret-Coloured Chaise
- Chapter XXII — Character and Acquirements of Mr. Rowley
- Chapter XXIII — The Adventure of the Runaway Couple
- Chapter XXIV — The Inn-Keeper of Kirkby-Lonsdale
- Chapter XXV — I Meet a Cheerful Extravagant
- Chapter XXVI — The Cottage at Night
- Chapter XXVII — The Sabbath Day
- Chapter XXVIII — Events of Monday: The Lawyer’s Party
- Chapter XXIX — Events of Tuesday: The Toils Closing
- Chapter XXX — Events of Wednesday; The University of Cramond
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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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