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Nonfiction · 1881

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson

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about 3.5 h
Length
49,582 words · 92 pages
Structure
15 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers, first published in 1881, 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. I
  2. II
  3. III.—On Falling in Love
  4. IV.—Truth of Intercourse
  5. Crabbed Age and Youth
  6. An Apology for Idlers
  7. Ordered South
  8. Æs Triplex
  9. El Dorado
  10. The English Admirals
  11. Some Portraits by Raeburn
  12. Child’s Play
  13. Walking Tours
  14. Pan’s Pipes
  15. A Plea for Gas Lamps

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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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