The Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was one of the most popular and highly regarded British writers of the end of the 19th century. He played a significant part in the revival of the novel of romance. During Rober...
At the time of his death in Samoa in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson was regarded by many critics and a large reading public as the most important writer in the English-speaking world. "Surely another age will wonder over this curiosity of letters," wrote S...
A combination of artistic ambitions, a thirst for adventure and discovery, courtship of and eventual marriage to an American, and above all poor health turned Robert Louis Stevenson into a life-long wanderer. His early travel writing demonstrates his kee...
We are living, as Joseph Epstein notes in "Life Sentences," in a time less and less literary, when that once-invoked "General Reader" is likely to be at the multiplex or a video-game arcade. The literary essay, then, might seem metaphorically homeless, sleeping in doorways...
Now that I'm forty-four years old, I'm going to offer some advice on the art of writing short stories: 1 Never approach short stories one at a time. If one approaches short stories one at a time, one can quite honestly be writing...
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