A Child's Garden of Verses
A book of poems written from a child’s imaginative vantage point. It is useful not merely as children’s verse but as a lesson in rhythm, memory, play and the ability to make ordinary objects feel strange again
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A book of poems written from a child’s imaginative vantage point. It is useful not merely as children’s verse but as a lesson in rhythm, memory, play and the ability to make ordinary objects feel strange again
This selection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s essays reveals the writer behind the adventure novels. Stevenson writes about books, travel, youth, writing, art, memory, character, and the habits that make up an ordinary life
Stevenson's novella follows a London doctor whose experiment separates a violent alter ego from his respectable identity, exploring repression, duality, secrecy, and moral responsibility
Stevenson’s Gothic adventure follows two Scottish brothers whose rivalry, political loyalties, pride, and obsession continue through war, exile, treasure, and revenge
Stevenson gives the adventure novel a nearly perfect engine: a map, a voyage, divided loyalties, pirates and a young narrator learning to read danger
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