The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
Subtitle: The Wrong Box and The Ebb Tide
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781417940042
Subjects: Classic fiction; Short stories; Classics; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / Classics; Fiction-Short Stories (single author); Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics
First sentence: HOW very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation of authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans - in one word, the vast scaffolding that was first built up and then knocked down, to while away an hour for him in a railway train!