Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson Scanned and proofed by David Price, ccx074@coventry.ac.uk EDINBURGH CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. THE ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen
Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson
Transcribed from the 1904 Cassell and Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CATRIONA DEDICATION. TO CHARLES BAXTER, Writer to the Signet. My Dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in
Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson
Transcribed from the 1895 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk BALLADS BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Contents: The Song of Rahero Dedication The Slaying of Tamatea The Venging of Tamatea Rahero Notes The Feast of Famine The Priest’s Vigil The Lovers The Feast The Raid Notes Ticonderoga The Saying of the Name The
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
Transcribed from 1904 Chatto & Windus edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Second proof by Margaret Price AN INLAND VOYAGE Contents: Preface Antwerp to Boom On the Willebroek Canal The Royal Sport Nautique At Maubeuge On the Sambre Canalised: to Quartes Pont-sur-Sambre: We are Pedlars The Travelling Merchant On the Sambre Canalised: to Landrecies At
Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson
Across The Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Second proof by Margaret Price. Contents I. Across The Plains II. The Old Pacific Capital III. Fontainebleau IV. Epilogue to “An Inland Voyage” V. Random Memories VI. Random Memories Continued VII. The Lantern-bearers VIII. A Chapter on Dreams IX. Beggars X.
A Footnote to History by Robert Louis StevensonEight Years of Trouble in Samoa
Transcribed from the 1912 Swanston edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY PREFACE An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson To Alison Cunningham From Her Boy For the long nights you lay awake And watched for my unworthy sake: For your most comfortable hand That led me through the uneven land: For all the story-books you read: For all the pains you comforted: For all you
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Story of the Door Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from