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The Death of the LionThe Death of the LionI had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my chief, as he was called in the office: he had the high mission...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2DEAREST KATHARINE,Here, on a very little book and accompanied with lame verses, I have put your name. Our kindness is now getting well on in years; it must be nearly of age; and it gets more...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1One day in the autumn of 1888, in the island of Tahiti, during an illness which he supposed might be his last, Stevenson put into the hands of his stepson, Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, a sealed paper...
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Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible SocietyLetters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible SocietyRevd. and dear Sir,I have just received your communication, and notwithstanding it is Sunday morning, and the bells with their loud and clear voices are calling me to church, I have sat down to...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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Appreciations of Richard Harding DavisAppreciations of Richard Harding Davis He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to...
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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding DavisAdventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to...
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Vailima LettersVailima Letters - Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894So much of preface seems necessary to this volume as may justify its publication and explain its origin. The writer was for many years my closest friend. It was...
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Memories and PortraitsMemories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...
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Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis StevensonWhen a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, Will he live? There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer. It is one of the...
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John BarleycornJohn Barleycorn It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of...
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Life on the MississippiLife on the Mississippi CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some Pages...
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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden...
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