Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Louis Stevenson

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." This collection of Stevenson's essays includes:On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant PlacesAn Apology for IdlersAes TriplexTalk and TalkersA Gossip on RomanceThe Character of DogsA College MagazineBooks Which Have Influenced MePulvis et Umbra