Essays I : : Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers / / R. L. Stevenson, Robert-Louis Abrahamson.

The first scholaraly edition of Stevenson's essaysThese essays, written from 1874 to 1880, established ‘R.L.S.’ as one of the prominent young writers of his time, a provocative and philosophically inclined bohemian playfully offering advice to his post-Darwinian generation about how to find con...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The New Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson : NEECWRLS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface by the General Editors
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chronology of Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Stevenson’s Essays
  • Stevenson as Essayist
  • Introduction
  • VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE AND OTHER PAPERS
  • Dedication
  • ‘Virginibus Puerisque’
  • Crabbed Age and Youth
  • An Apology for Idlers
  • Ordered South
  • Æs Triplex
  • El Dorado
  • The English Admirals
  • Some Portraits by Raeburn
  • Child’s Play
  • Walking Tours
  • Pan’s Pipes
  • A Plea for Gas Lamps
  • Appendices
  • Note on the Text
  • Emendation List
  • End-of-Line Hyphens
  • Explanatory Notes