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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Children's | Series: Children's Classic Collections
Here is a delightful look at childhood, written by master poet and storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson. In this collection of sixty-six poems, Stevenson recalls the joys of his childhood, from sailing boats down a river, to waiting for the lamplighter, to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination. ...Show more
A Child's Garden of Verses (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classic
The sixty-four poems in A Child's Garden of Verses are a masterly evocation of childhood from the author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped. They are full of delightful irony, wit and the fantasy worlds of childhood imagination, and introduce for the first time the Land of Nod. But they are also touched w ...Show more
An Apology for Idlers by STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
An irresistible invitation to reject the work ethic and enjoy life's simple pleasures (such as laughing, drinking and lying in the open air), Robert Louis Stevenson's witty and seminal essay on the joys of idleness is accompanied here by his writings on, among other things, growing old, visiting unpleas ...Show more
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer; he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climes and social orthodoxy. Along the way he travelled through ...Show more
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Black Arrow The by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Art Instructionals | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Caught in the midst of England's War of the Roses, young Dick Shelton's loyalties are torn between a guardian who betrays him and the leader of the secret fellowship, "The Black Arrow". In order to survive he must distinguish friend from foe and confront the tests of war, shipwreck, murder and forbidden ...Show more
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Fiction
This beautiful board book features eight of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic poems with antique illustrations by some of the best-known children's book illustrators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Charles Robinson, H. Willebeek Le Mair and Jessie Willcox Smith. An unforge ...Show more
Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Other Stationery
Originally published in 1885, "A Child's Garden of Verses" has served as a wonderful introduction to poetry for each new generation. Stevenson's beloved poems celebrate childhood in all its complexity and joy, from "The Land of Nod" to the playful, ever-popular "My Shadow." Of the many available edition ...Show more
Classic Poems for Boys by G. K. Chesterton; Edward Lear; Robert Louis Stevenson; Anton Lesser (Read by); Roy McMillan (Read by); Benjamim Soames (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Naxos Junior Classics Ser.
This text comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's 'Casabianca' and John Keats's 'A Song About Myself', to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, this is a collection to be ...Show more
Classic Works of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classic | Series: Classic Works
From the adventures of Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island to The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Stevenson's legacy of novels and adventure stories is considerable and filled with colourful characters and rich settings, making for exciting and compelling reads for adults and young readers alike. Robe ...Show more
Classics Illustrated: No. 7: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Fiction
Not only is Stevenson's novel the inspiration for "The Incredible Hulk", but Alan Moore, writer/creator of the best-selling "Watchmen" graphic novel, enlisted Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in his original graphic novel series, "The League of Extraordinary Gentleman", thus making this CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED vers ...Show more