A Childs Garden Of Verses, A by R Stevenson
Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse.
A Childs Garden Of Verses, A
Summary
First published in 1885, this book contains Stevenson's recollections of childhood in verse. The facsimile edition includes illustrations and the original advertisements from the 1886 edition.
A Childs Garden Of Verses, A Summary
About R Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. He was an intelligent but sickly child and so he started to make up stories to entertain himself. He once wrote, 'I have three powerful impressions of childhood: my sufferings when I was sick, my delights in convalescence at my grandfather's manse of Colinton, near Edinburgh, and the unnatural activity of my mind after I was in bed at night.' During the summer of 1881, Stevenson and his family were staying in a cottage in Braemar in Scotland. One afternoon he began drawing a map to amuse his stepson, but found that he himself was carried away, 'As I pored upon my map of "Treasure Island", the future characters of the book began to appear there visibly among imaginary woods: and their brown faces and bright weapons peeped out upon me from unexpected quarters ... the next thing I knew, I had some papers before me and was writing out a list of chapters'. And so Treasure Island was begun and published in 1881. Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of Kidnapped and The Children's Garden of Verses as well as the adult book, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. During his short life Stevenson travelled the world from the South Pacific to the USA, Europe to Australia. He died at the age of 44 years old on a small Samoan island in the Pacific.
Additional information
GOR001291962
9781851583911
1851583912
A Childs Garden Of Verses, A by R Stevenson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
1995-04-01
160
N/A
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