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Moral Emblems. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Louis Stevenson - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
Robert Louis Stevenson created the words and illustrations for his Moral Emblems while he was staying in the mountain resort of Davos in Switzerland. Stevenson was feared to be dying from tuberculosis of the lung ('consumption') at the time. The family was struggling financially, and the printing, making and hawking of the chapbooks kept Stevenson’s young stepson Lloyd Osbourne busy. The mock simplicity of Stevenson's verse is a knowing imitation of the many moral tales that were to be found in religious chapbooks. One verse accompanies a woodcut showing a boat putting out to sea despite atrocious weather, and someone watching from the shore; it reads: With storms a-weather, rocks a-lee, The dancing skiff puts forth to sea. The lone dissenter in the blast Recoils before the sight aghast. But she, although the heavens be black, Holds on upon the starboard tack. For why? Although today she sink Still safe she sails in printers' ink. And though today the seamen drown, My cut shall hand their memory down. Another story, 'Robin and Ben', not printed until after Stevenson's death, concerns the murderous rapacity of a greedy medical man and his lack of concern for human life, which is revenged by the moral indignation of a pirate. These original works demonstrate in their versification, their crude illustrations, and the crafted manner of their manufacture – they were hand-typeset, carried hand wood-engraved images, were printed/folded/assembled by hand – the simplicity of Stevenson's own childhood reading matter, and his comedic love of traditional chapbooks.
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Louis Stevenson - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2019 -
Preface On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a man so little known may seem to a stranger out of all proportion. But Jenkin was a man much more remarkable than the mere bulk or merit of his work approves him. It was in the world, in the commerce of friendship, by his brave attitude towards life, by his high moral value and unwearied intellectual effort, that he struck the minds of his contemporaries. His was an individual figure, such as authors delight to draw, and all men to read of, in the pages of a novel. His was a face worth painting for its own sake. If the sitter shall not seem to have justified the portrait, if Jenkin, after his death, shall not continue to make new friends, the fault will be altogether mine.
Memories and Portraits. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Louis Stevenson - Ionlineshopping.Com, 2018 -
Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Contents I. The Foreigner at Home II. Some College Memories III. Old Morality IV. A College Magazine V. An Old Scotch Gardener VI. Pastoral VII. The Manse VIII. Memories of an Islet IX. Thomas Stevenson X. Talk And Talkers: First Paper XI. Talk And Talkers: Second Paper XII. The Character of Dogs XIII. "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured" XIV. A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas's XV. A Gossip on Romance XVI. A Humble Remonstrance