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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken... show more
Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents rated it 3 years ago
2.5 - 3 stars These stories weren't bad but weren't anything special really either. I liked the Bottle Imp the most.
Lora Hates Spam
Lora Hates Spam rated it 5 years ago
by Robert Louis Stevenson This is a tale written for a Polynesian audience, set in Hawaii, yes with Christian elements. Keawe is a mariner and decides to see the world beyond the islands. He books passage to San Francisco where he is impressed by all the fine houses. A man in one of the smaller ho...
Bookish Blerd
Bookish Blerd rated it 5 years ago
Great performance, meh story. I love pirates, adventure, historical settings, classics, and full cast performances. This story had all of that, yet it didn't entertain me like I hoped/expected. I couldn't get into it, even with the very excellent voice cast carrying me through the tale. I suspect...
Url Phantomhive
Url Phantomhive rated it 5 years ago
Olalla was my first venture into the literary works of Robert Louis Stevenson and it was not a very good one. I have a lot of friends who keep telling me to get to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde so I had high expectations of this one, but I don't know. I don't think the story was very good, or that much happ...
A Scottish-Canadian Blethering On About Books
If I read this in childhood - and it would have been in a children's abridged edition, I should think - it didn't leave any memory of its rather gory plot, nor of the curious moral ambiguity of it principal villain, Long John Silver. Nonetheless, once it got going, it was more or less what I expec...
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