Across the Plains

Across the Plains

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 322

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"America was to me a sort of promised land; 'westward the march of empire holds its way'; the race is for the moment to the young; what has been and what is we imperfectly and obscurely know; what is to be yet lies beyond the flight of our imaginations. . . " Robert Louis Stevenson, The Amateur Emigrant Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892) by Robert Louis Stevenson is the second book in a trilogy that began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters and in which the author described his travels in the United States. Each of the 12 chapters is a self-contained essay that discusses a particular aspect of what Stevenson observed as he traveled by train from New York to California. They give a fascinating view of what travel was in the late Victorian period from the perspective of a Scottish visitor.


Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2023-01-18

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 8726931141

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‘Across the Plains’ is a vibrant collection of travel and exploration pieces from Stevenson’s life. ‘Across the Plains’ itself recounts Stevenson’s journey from Glasgow to New York before his long train ride to California. It offers a fascinating insight in to how our world used to be, from the weeks of travel to the vastly different food, and unfortunately the vast prevalence of xenophobia. Other tales such as ‘Fontainebleau’ are love letters to the beauty of a small French town populated by artists where life is slow and procrastination is the order of the day. Or for the history buffs among you ‘The Old Pacific Capital’ gives a fascinating account of California’s old capital of Monterey. It is a collection perfect for those fascinated with the Victorian age, or those of you obsessed with ‘Carnival Row’, there’s just no elves unfortunately. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), was an author with a formidable legacy. You will be hard pressed to find anyone alive today who has not come across his work in one form or another. The brilliant mind behind ‘Treasure Island’ and the ‘Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’, has had a profound impact on every aspect of entertainment to this day with his brilliant creations. Despite dealing with ill health all his life he was a prolific traveller, spending his later years in Samoa where he fought vigorously for the rights of the natives, earning their love and respect. R.L Stevenson was a character in his own right, passionate and adventurous, his spirit shines through in his work, from his novels to his travel guides. You simply owe it to yourself to experience his creations, he was a true titan of literature on whose shoulders we all stand.


Across the Plains

Across the Plains

Author: Robert Stevenson

Publisher:

Published: 2017-10-02

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781977853455

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Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays is a collection of memoirs and essays by the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection includes: Across the Plains The Old Pacific Capital Fontainebleau Epilogue to "An Inland Voyage" Random Memories Random Memories Continued The Lantern-bearers A Chapter on Dreams Beggars Letter to a Young Gentleman Pulvis et Umbra A Christmas Sermon Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.


The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Author: Trenton B. Olsen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 0429602294

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For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best of their time. Despite the importance of Stevenson’s nonfiction, his personal essays—70 in total—have never been printed together in a single volume until now. Stevenson’s essays explore a range of topics from illness and evolution to marriage and dreams, and from literal and literary travel to the behavior of children and the character of dogs. Grappling with many of the cultural, ethical, and existential questions of his age, he resists dogma to draw fresh conclusions. Stevenson examines beggars and university students, immigrants and engineers, invalids and nurses, outlining his own colorful life story and unique approach to "the art of living" along the way. Whereas the most common and widely available versions of these texts were modified after Stevenson’s death, this volume gathers his personal essays, many of which have never appeared in any modern edition, in their authorized versions. These essays are still considered classic models of the form, and in this volume, the Editor presents them alongside an introduction and notes to assist in a rereading and reappreciation that is long overdue.


ACROSS THE PLAINS

ACROSS THE PLAINS

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: 右灰文化傳播有限公司可提供下載列印

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 178

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�It was, if I remember rightly, five o'clock when we were all signalled to be present at the Ferry Depot of the railroad. An emigrant ship had arrived at New York on the Saturday night, another on the Sunday morning, our own on Sunday afternoon, a fourth early on Monday; and as there is no emigrant train on Sunday a great part of the passengers from these four ships was concentrated on the train by which I was to travel. There was a babel of bewildered men, women, and children. The wretched little booking-office, and the baggage-room, which was not much larger, were crowded thick with emigrants, and were heavy and rank with the atmosphere of dripping clothes. Open carts full of bedding stood by the half-hour in the rain.


Essays and Studies

Essays and Studies

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-27

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 3385241901

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.


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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 1092

ISBN-13:

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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)

Publisher:

Published: 1922

Total Pages: 1662

ISBN-13:

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