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OverviewFamiliar Studies of Men and Books (1882) provided a kind of companion-piece to Virginibus Puerisque, reprinting the more literary and critical essays left out of the first collection. In his Preface, RLS describes the contents as the readings of a literary vagrant .The volume contains nine essays: seven essays previously appearing in the Cornhill Magazine ( Victor Hugo's Romances [1874]; Charles of Orleans [1876]; Francois Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker [1877]; Some Aspects of Robert Burns [1879]; Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions and Yoshida-Torajiro [1880]; Samuel Pepys [1881]), one from Macmillan's( John Knox and His Relations to Women [1875]) and one from New Quarterly Magazine ( Walt Whitman , 1878). Stevenson added a Preface, by Way of Criticism , offering his own assessment of his essays, often showing the way his views changed since the essays had been first written. Full Product DetailsAuthor: D Angeles , Robert Louis StevensonPublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.549kg ISBN: 9781077482487ISBN 10: 1077482485 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 01 July 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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