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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Full Moon Publications
Release Date : 2016-05-21

Essays In The Art Of Writing Illustrated written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by Full Moon Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-21 with Education categories.

Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of "Treasure Island" and "The Master of Ballantrae." Contents on some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A Note On Realism, My First Book: "Treasure Island"," The Genesis of The Master of Ballantrae" Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson's life was almost as adventurous as the stories he created.

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Release Date : 2021-03-11

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The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has been debated, to put the matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring a general contempt on books and reading. Some time ago, in particular, a lively, pleasant, popular writer devoted an essay, lively and pleasant like himself, to a very encouraging view of the profession. We may be glad that his experience is so cheering, and we may hope that all others, who deserve it, shall be as handsomely rewarded; but I do not think we need be at all glad to have this question, so important to the public and ourselves, debated solely on the ground of money. The salary in any business under heaven is not the only, nor indeed the first, question. That you should continue to exist is a matter for your own consideration; but that your business should be first honest, and second useful, are points in which honour and morality are concerned. If the writer to whom I refer succeeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt this way of life with an eye set singly on the livelihood, we must expect them in their works to follow profit only, and we must expect in consequence, if he will pardon me the epithets, a slovenly, base, untrue, and empty literature. Of that writer himself I am not speaking: he is diligent, clean, and pleasing; we all owe him periods of entertainment, and he has achieved an amiable popularity which he has adequately deserved. But the truth is, he does not, or did not when he first embraced it, regard his profession from this purely mercenary side. He went into it, I shall venture to say, if not with any noble design, at least in the ardour of a first love; and he enjoyed its practice long before he paused to calculate the wage. The other day an author was complimented on a piece of work, good in itself and exceptionally good for him, and replied, in terms unworthy of a commercial traveller that as the book was not briskly selling he did not give a copper farthing for its merit. It must not be supposed that the person to whom this answer was addressed received it as a profession of faith; he knew, on the other hand, that it was only a whiff of irritation; just as we know, when a respectable writer talks of literature as a way of life, like shoemaking, but not so useful, that he is only debating one aspect of a question, and is still clearly conscious of a dozen others more important in themselves and more central to the matter in hand.

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-26

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-02-16

The profession of letters has been lately debated in the public prints; and it has been debated, to putthe matter mildly, from a point of view that was calculated to surprise high-minded men, and bring ageneral contempt on books and reading. Some time ago, in particular, a lively, pleasant, popularwriter [47b] devoted an essay, lively and pleasant like himself, to a very encouraging view of theprofession. We may be glad that his experience is so cheering, and we may hope that all others, whodeserve it, shall be as handsomely rewarded; but I do not think we need be at all glad to have thisquestion, so important to the public and ourselves, debated solely on the ground of money. Thesalary in any business under heaven is not the only, nor indeed the first, question. That you shouldcontinue to exist is a matter for your own consideration; but that your business should be firsthonest, and second useful, are points in which honour and morality are concerned. If the writer towhom I refer succeeds in persuading a number of young persons to adopt this way of life with aneye set singly on the livelihood, we must expect them in their works to follow profit only, and wemust expect in consequence, if he will pardon me the epithets, a slovenly, base, untrue, and emptyliterature. Of that writer himself I am not speaking: he is diligent, clean, and pleasing; we all owehim periods of entertainment, and he has achieved an amiable popularity which he has adequatelydeserved. But the truth is, he does not, or did not when he first embraced it, regard his professionfrom this purely mercenary side. He went into it, I shall venture to say, if not with any noble design, at least in the ardour of a first love; and he enjoyed its practice long before he paused to calculate thewage. The other day an author was complimented on a piece of work, good in itself andexceptionally good for him, and replied, in terms unworthy of a commercial traveller that as thebook was not briskly selling he did not give a copper farthing for its merit. It must not be supposedthat the person to whom this answer was addressed received it as a profession of faith; he knew, onthe other hand, that it was only a whiff of irritation; just as we know, when a respectable writer talksof literature as a way of life, like shoemaking, but not so useful, that he is only debating one aspectof a question, and is still clearly conscious of a dozen others more important in themselves and morecentral to the matter in hand. But while those who treat literature in this penny-wise and virtuefoolish spirit are themselves truly in possession of a better light, it does not follow that the treatmentis decent or improving, whether for themselves or others. To treat all subjects in the highest, themost honourable, and the pluckiest spirit, consistent with the fact, is the first duty of a writer. If hebe well paid, as I am glad to hear he is, this duty becomes the more urgent, the neglect of it the moredisgraceful. And perhaps there is no subject on which a man should speak so gravely as thatindustry, whatever it may be, which is the occupation or delight of his life; which is his tool to earnor serve with; and which, if it be unworthy, stamps himself as a mere incubus of dumb and greedybowels on the shoulders of labouring humanity

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-07-25

Essays In The Art Of Writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-25 with categories.

A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature," "The morality of the profession of letters," "Books which have influenced me," "A note on realism," "My first book: 'Treasure Island'," "The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae'" & "Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'." Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850-December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins," as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon.

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Author : Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-08-03

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How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Essays in the Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae."" CONTENTS: On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A Note On Realism, My First Book: ""Treasure Island,"" The Genesis of ""The Master of Ballantrae"" Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson's life was almost as adventurous as the stories he created. He spent much of it as a traveler, writing about his exploits in such exemplary travel books as TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES. He studied law but never practiced he always wanted to write, and gave himself what amounted to a writing course, studying and copying the style and techniques of his favorite writers. His attempts paid off: his first published novel, TREASURE ISLAND, brought him money and fame. At 29 he fell in love with a married woman--alienating his family--and pursued her to California, where she divorced her husband, after which the couple married and traveled extensively in the U.S., visiting various spas and health resorts in search of a cure for the tuberculosis from which Stevenson suffered all his life. After extensive travel in the South Seas, he finally settled in Samoa, where he became involved in the lives and politics of the islanders. During all his wanderings, he continued to write, producing a total of 12 novels, many short tales, three plays, poetry (including the classic A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES), and dozens of books of essays and travel pieces. He died in Samoa at 44--suddenly, of apoplexy, as he was making a salad for dinner--leaving his last book, THE WEIR OF HERMISTON, unfinished.

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Author : Stevenson Robert Louis
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-06-03

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A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which have influenced me", "A note on realism", "My first book: 'Treasure Island'", "The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae'" & "Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'".

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Author : Robert Louis Steve
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-03-18

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There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind. And perhaps in aesthetics the reason is the same: those disclosures which seem fatal to the dignity of art seem so perhaps only in the proportion of our ignorance; and those conscious and unconscious artifices which it seems unworthy of the serious artist to employ were yet, if we had the power to trace them to their springs, indications of a delicacy of the sense finer than we conceive, and hints of ancient harmonies in nature. This ignorance at least is largely irremediable. We shall never learn the affinities of beauty, for they lie too deep in nature and too far back in the mysterious history of man. The amateur, in consequence, will always grudgingly receive details of method, which can be stated but never can wholly be explained; nay, on the principle laid down in Hudibras, that 'Still the less they understand, The more they admire the sleight-of-hand,

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-11-14

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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. On December 3rd, 1894, he died of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44.

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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
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A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature," "The morality of the profession of letters," "Books which have influenced me," "A note on realism," "My first book: 'Treasure Island'," "The genesis of 'the master of Ballantrae'" & "Preface to 'the master of Ballantrae'." We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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