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MEN AND BOOKS
somewhat deformed ; but, deformed as it is, we
accept it gladly ; we shall have the wisdom to see
where his foot slips, but we shall have the justice
also to recognise in him one of the greatest artists
of our generation, and, in many ways, one of the
greatest artists of time. If we look back, yet once,
upon these five romances, we see blemishes such
as we can lay to the charge of no other man in the
number of the famous ; but to what other man can
we attribute such sweeping innovations, such a new
and significant presentment of the life of man, such
an amount, if we merely think of the amount, of
equally consummate performance ?
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somewhat deformed ; but, deformed as it is, we
accept it gladly ; we shall have the wisdom to see
where his foot slips, but we shall have the justice
also to recognise in him one of the greatest artists
of our generation, and, in many ways, one of the
greatest artists of time. If we look back, yet once,
upon these five romances, we see blemishes such
as we can lay to the charge of no other man in the
number of the famous ; but to what other man can
we attribute such sweeping innovations, such a new
and significant presentment of the life of man, such
an amount, if we merely think of the amount, of
equally consummate performance ?
48
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| Early editions of Robert Louis Stevenson > Collected works > Works of Robert Louis Stevenson > Miscellanies, Volume II > (64) Page 48 |
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| Description | Contents: Familiar Studies of Men and Books. (Preface.--Victor Hugo's romances.--Some aspects of Robert Burns.--Walt Whitman.--Henry David Thoreau: his character and opinions.--Yoshida Torajiro.--François Villon, student, poet, and housebreaker.--Charles of Orleans.--Samuel Pepys.--John Knox and women.) |
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| Shelfmark | Hall.275.a |
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1895 [Date published] |
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Literature (humanities) Essays Criticism Anthologies |
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Burns, Robert, 1759-1796 [Subject of text] Villon, François, b. 1431 [Subject of text] Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572 [Subject of text] Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 [Subject of text] Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 [Subject of text] Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 [Subject of text] Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 [Subject of text] Yoshida, Shōin, 1830-1859 [Subject of text] Charles, d’Orléans, 1394-1465 [Subject of text] |
| Description | Edinburgh edition. Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co, 1894-98. [28 volumes in total, only some of which NLS has digitised.] |
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1894-1898 [Date printed] |
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Collected works |
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Chatto & Windus (Firm) [Distributor] Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 [Author] T. and A. Constable [Printer] Longmans, Green, and Co. [Publisher] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 [Editor] |
| Description | Full text versions of early editions of works by Robert Louis Stevenson. Includes 'Kidnapped', 'The Master of Ballantrae' and other well-known novels, as well as 'Prince Otto', 'Dynamiter' and 'St Ives'. Also early British and American book editions, serialisations of novels in newspapers and literary magazines, and essays by Stevenson. |
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