Memories and Portraits
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About This Book
Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henr...
Chapters (30)
- MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS
- NOTE
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. THE FOREIGNER AT HOME
- CHAPTER II. SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES [15]
- CHAPTER III. OLD MORTALITY
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- CHAPTER IV. A COLLEGE MAGAZINE
- I
- II
- III
- CHAPTER V. AN OLD SCOTCH GARDENER
- CHAPTER VI. PASTORAL
- CHAPTER VII. THE MANSE
- CHAPTER VIII. MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET
- I
- CHAPTER IX. THOMAS STEVENSON—CIVIL ENGINEER
- CHAPTER X. TALK AND TALKERS
- CHAPTER XI. TALK AND TALKERS [105]
- II
- 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 [168a]
- II
- Footnotes:
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