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Across the Plains de Robert Louis Stevenson

Across the Plains

Autor Robert Louis Stevenson
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Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an immigrant, along with hundreds of other Europeans, and his train journey from New York to San Francisco in an immigrant train.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781482000931
ISBN-10: 1482000938
Pagini: 132
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE

Notă biografică

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson on November 13, 1850, and died on December 3, 1894. The books Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses are among his best known. Stevenson, who was born and had his education in Edinburgh, had severe bronchial problems for much of his life, despite which he produced a large body of work and travelled abroad. He was inspired by Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen, and W. E. Henley as a young man when mingling in intellectual circles in London. The last author may have served as a model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. He moved to Samoa in 1890, when his work shifted away from romance and adventure literature and toward a harsher reality out of concern for the growing influence of Europe and America on the South Sea islands. Stevenson abruptly yelled, ""What's that?,"" then questioned his wife, ""Does my face seem strange?,"" before collapsing on December 3, 1894, as he struggled to open a bottle of wine while chatting with his wife. He suffered a stroke at the age of 44, and died a few hours later.

Cuprins

1. Across the plains; 2. The old Pacific capital; 3. Fontainebleau; 4. Epilogue to 'An inland voyage'; 5. Random memories; 6. Random memories continued; 7. The lantern-bearers; 8. A chapter on dreams; 9. Beggars; 10. Letter to a young gentleman; 11. Pulvis et umbra sumus; 12. A Christmas sermon.

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This collection of essays from the 1880s appeared two years before Stevenson's early death.