Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Title:
Memories and Portraits
Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Category:
Language & Dictionary
ISBN:
9781455371518
Publisher:
PublishDrive Inc (Seltzer Books)
File Size:
0.55 MB
(price excluding 0% GST)
Synopsis
Memoirs by the author of Treasure Island. He explains at the beginning: This volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle - taken together, they build up a face that I have loved long since and lost awhile, the face of what was once myself. This has come by accident; I had no design at first to be autobiographical; I was but led away by the charm of beloved memories and by regret for the irrevocable dead; and when my own young face (which is a face of the dead also) began to appear in the well as by a kind of magic, I was the first to be surprised at the occurrence.
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