Long novel e-books (over 3h to read) of Robert Louis Stevenson

PART ONE--The Old Buccaneer 1 The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about T...

WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON PREFACE TO THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use the...

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Transcribed from the 1899 Charles Scribner's Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE BLACK ARROW--A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES Critic on the Hearth: No one but myself knows what...

ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "Now, mark me, mine host," Sir Daniel said, "follow but mine orders and I shall be your good lord ever" ...

* * * * * LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1920 * * * * * ...

It was a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros.

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XXV _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Si...

It was about three o'clock of a winter's afternoon in Tai-o-hae, the French capital and port of entry of the Marquesas Islands.

LAY MORALS 379 PRAYERS WRITTEN FOR FAMILY USE AT VAILIMA 431 RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF ENGINEERS RECORDS OF A FAMILY OF E...

LETTERS FROM SAMOA 351 EDITORIAL NOTE _The following chapters are selected from a series which was first published partially in 'Black and White' (Febru...

A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT 227 THE SIRE DE MALÉTROIT'S DOOR 250 PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR ...

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XXIV _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and S...

PREFACE An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet.

CHAPTER I A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK The 25th day of August, 1751, about two in the afternoon, I, David Balfour, came forth of the British Linen Company, a porter attending me with a bag of money, an...

INTRODUCTION TO THE SWANSTON EDITION So much has been written on R. L. Stevenson, as a boy, a man, and a man of letters, so much has been written both by himself and others, that I can hope to ad...

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XXIII _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and ...

CHAPTER I - STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH, TRAVELS AND EXCURSIONS, 1868-1873 Letter: SPRING GROVE SCHOOL, 12TH NOVEMBER 1863.

CHAPTER I A TALE OF A LION RAMPANT It was in the month of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the enemy.

THE BODY-SNATCHER 277 FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS TO THOMAS STEVENSON CIVIL ENGINEER BY WHOSE DEVICES THE GREAT SEA LIGHTS IN EVERY Q...

STEVENSON AT PLAY INTRODUCTION BY LLOYD OSBOURNE 259 WAR CORRESPONDENCE FROM STEVENSON'S NOTE-BOOK 263 THE DAVOS PRESS MORAL EMBLEMS, ETC.: FACSIMILE...

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME V _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixt...

Chapter I. This I would read to him, and if satisfactory it was laid to one side; but were it not, I would rewrite it, embodying his criticisms.

CHAPTER I THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE The story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history in the most exact sense.

CHAPTER I INTRODUCES THE ADMIRAL When Dick Naseby was in Paris he made some odd acquaintances, for he was one of those who have ears to hear, and can use their eyes no less than their intelligence.

CHAPTER I PAGE The Jenkins of Stowting--Fleeming's grandfather--Mrs. Buckner's fortune--Fleeming's father; goes to sea; at ...

THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XV _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and S...

PRINCE OTTO TO _NELLY VAN DE GRIFT_ (MRS. ADULFO SANCHEZ, OF MONTEREY) _At last, after so many years, I have the pleasure of re-introducing you to "Prince Otto," whom you will remember a ve...

MARKHEIM 273 THE BLACK ARROW A TALE OF THE TWO ROSES _CRITIC ON THE HEARTH_ _No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my b...

THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE _TO_ _SIR PERCY FLORENCE AND LADY SHELLEY_ _Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries.

CHAPTER I IN WHICH JOHN SOWS THE WIND John Varey Nicholson was stupid; yet stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction.