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    21/07/2024
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    Child’s Garden of Verses (version 2)

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    A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems – some quite short – including the cherished classics “The Lamplighter,” “The Land of Counterpane,” “Bed in Summer,” “My Shadow” and “The Swing.” (Summary by Wikipedia and Sweet Pea)     [chương_files]  

    20/07/2024
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    Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

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    “Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.” What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very much the genial fireside companion: opinionated, but never malicious; a marvellous practitioner of the inclusive monologue. In this collection of nine pieces he discusses the art of appreciating unattractive scenery, traces the complex social life of dogs, and meditates in several essays upon the experience of reading literature and writing it. Perhaps his most personal passages concern death and mortality. Here we meet him at his most undogmatically optimistic, as he affirms a wholesome faith in “the liveableness of Life”.     [chương_files]  

    17/07/2024
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    The Amateur Emigrant

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    In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was convinced by friends to purchase a ticket one grade above the lowest price, for which he was later thankful after seeing the conditions in steerage, but he still lived among the ‘lower’ classes. His comments on the experience make interesting reading. His father however was so shocked at the thought of his son associating with people ‘beneath him’ that the work was not published for a number of years,     [chương_files]  

    01/07/2024
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    Catriona

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    This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite abruptly. The reason is Stevenson planned on writing a sequel. Catriona takes up the story of David Balfour on the same day Kidnapped ends. He must now try to clear his name and the name of James Stewart of the Appin murder. This will not be easy because the Campbells want James Stewart to hang. “Catriona: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad, in which are set forth his misfortunes anent the Appin Murder, his troubles with Lord Advocate Grant: captivity on the Bass Rock, Journey into Holland and France, and singular relations with James More Drummond or MacGregor, a son of the notorious Rob Roy, and his daughter Catriona: written by himself, and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson.” (Summary by Wayne Cooke and from the title page)     [chương_files]  

    12/06/2024
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    Treasure Island (version 5)

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    Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold”. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — unusual for children’s literature. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X”, schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders. – Summary by Kara and Wikipedia     [chương_files]  

    27/05/2024
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    Treasure Island (version 2)

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    A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course) Long John Silver. Arr Jim lad! R.L. Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Scotland and travelled extensively in California and the south Pacific. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)     [chương_files]  

    24/05/2024
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    Treasure Island

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    Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of “buccaneers and buried gold.” Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children’s literature then and now. (Summary from wikipedia.org)     [chương_files]  

    12/05/2024
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    Isla del Tesoro

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    La Isla del Tesoro es una narración llana, un romance fácil, un cuento sabroso con un niño por héroe, y que, á pesar de sus peripecias dramáticas y conmovedoras, conserva en todo el discurso del libro una pureza y una sencillez tales que no habrá hogar, por mucha severidad que impere en él, del cual pueda desterrársele con razón. Stevenson se propuso, además, describir con esa difícil facilidad que parece ser un secreto suyo, esas escenas y aventuras marinas en que el lector percibe, desprendiéndose de la sencilla narración, ya el olor acre de las brisas de la playa, ya el rumor de la pleamar deshaciéndose contra las rocas, ya el eco monótono de los cantos de marineros y grumetes empeñados en la maniobra. La fábula es sencilla pero perfectamente verosímil; con sólo que se recuerden los horrores que realizaron en los mares que dividen el Antiguo del Nuevo Continente aquellas hordas de piratas ingleses que tantas veces abordaron las naos de Nueva España y del Perú, se comprende la posibilidad de ese feroz Capitán Flint que, tras de adquirir un tesoro por la rapiña y la audacia, lo esconde en el corazón de una isla desierta para excitar con él, á su muerte, la avaricia y la sed de oro de sus mismos cómplices. – Summary by Manuel Caballero (Traductor)     [chương_files]