Treasure Island

Literature & Fiction

Robert, Louis

Shan Caroline Stevenson

Literary

Trafalgar Square Books

Treasure & Kidnapped

STEVENSON

Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee

A boy leaves his childhood home and finds adventure, treachery and friendship.He meets the best and worst of mankind... thieves, pirates and courageous Highland clansmen. Kidnapped aboard a ship, he must endure the dangers of the high seas. He escapes finding himself accused of murder, running across the Scottish highlands for his life, sometimes only steps ahead of the Redcoasts and a noose.

Kidnapped

Kestel, Deborah (adaptor) Stevenson

Classics

Playmore, Inc.

De L'Utilisation Des Forces Hydrauliques Dans L'Avant-Projet De Code Civil Fédéral Et Dans Quelques Législations Étrangères (French Edition)

Nabu Press

The Merry Men, And Other Tales And Fables

Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands.  

Kidnapped (Illustrated Originals)

Octopus Books

Dalmation Press

A Child's Garden of Verses is the ideal field for the Grown-Up's harvester.   It stands alone.   There is nothing like it, so intimate, so simply truthful, in our language, in any language. Herein the poet (at last one may use the words "poet" and "poetry" with no reservations) has accomplished that most difficult of feats: he has recaptured in maturity the thoughts, ambitions, purposes, hopes, fears, philosophy of the child.  It is our joy, as we listen, to recapture them too.  "I also hunted behind the sofa back."  The man of genius who can draw from his charmed reader a genuine "I also," is assured of a niche in the heart. The Child's Garden of Verses is one of those books which inspire the feeling — almost the passion—of gratitude. As we read our eyes are a little moist—with satisfaction; and now, when the words have the sympathetic alliance of Charles Robinson's pencil, more so than ever. (Never were author and artist in closer accord. It adds matter to our grief for Mr. Stevenson's early death that he could not see these winsome pictures, especially perhaps the last.) As we read, years fall away, wrinkles are smoothed out, the envious crow removes his foot, world-knowledge so bitterly acquired evanesces, and once again the man is a child at play, and a bird is singing in his heart as of old.  In reading these verses, we can exclaim: We also. But this is a slight exaggeration. Only a very few readers could honestly say that, for the Stevenson child is a child of genius, removed from the ordinary child by a wide gulf. It is true that a philosopher has recorded his belief that every child has genius; but, even if that be so, there are degrees. It is given to few to possess the wisdom and imaginings of this little gardener. The difference between the child of genius and the ordinary child may be illustrated by quotation. The ordinary child, impelled to verse in the presence of a cow, remarks,  "The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple tart."  The poems themselves are so precious that we can never have too many new editions, whether the artists wholly succeed or not.   Lastly, it is not likely that any one will ever illustrate Stevenson as sympathetically as did the Charles Robinson, and a great many have tried.   The poems themselves are so precious that we can never have too many new editions, whether the artists wholly succeed or not.   The illustrations in this edition wear the habiliments of Stevenson's boyhood. The grace of draftsmanship, for example, in "The Land of Counterpane," the atmospheric effect in   "Looking Glass River," and "My Shadow" is rarely excelled in story-book pictures, the print of the child ensconced in the opening image of "Historical Associations," is a veritable triumph illustration.

A Child's Garden Of Verses

ROBINSON

CHARLES

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - by Robert Louis Stevenson - Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature. Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support. Travels was both meant to he needed to be with the woman he loved[clarification needed], and provide the adventure he craved, having been sickly much of his life. Travels recounts Stevenson's 12-day, 120-mile solo hiking journey through the sparsely populated and impoverished areas of the Cévennes mountains in south-central France in 1878. The character of Modestine, a stubborn, manipulative donkey he could never quite get the better of, is memorable. It is one of the earliest accounts which presented hiking and camping outdoors as a recreational activity. It also tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags, large and heavy enough to require a donkey to carry. The Cévennes was the site of a Protestant rebellion around 1702, severely suppressed by Catholic Louis XIV. The Protestant insurgents, a minority population in the region, were known as the Camisards. Stevenson was well-versed in the history, romantically imagining scenes from the rebellion along the way. He notes that the Catholics and the Protestants, at the time of his travels, lived peaceably but with an absolute divide between the two communities. A young Catholic man who married a Protestant girl and changed his faith in the process was unanimously condemned for this breach of loyalty, an example of the sentiment "change is not good" which pervaded the countryside. Stevenson himself was Protestant by upbringing, and both the geography of the Cévennes with its barren rocky heather-filled hillsides, and the history of religious strife that lay over the land, were familiar ground for the Scot. The book appeared the following year, 1879, and is dedicated to his friend Sidney Colvin, a cultured man who had befriended him when he was still unpublished.

Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes

The eveil &amp; wild Mr. Hyde walks the dark streets of London. His cruel crimes &amp; twisted soul make the blood run cold. Yet the good &amp; mild Dr. Jekyll seems to protect this monster. Why? Somewhere - behind the door, behind the shadows, behind the lies - the truth is lurking.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Junior Classic

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