Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

MP3 Audio CD. ?Extreme busyness?is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.?

In this set of 9 stories Robert lectures the creativity of acknowledging unsightly landscape, trails the complicated social life of the canine, and contemplates in many essays on the incidents of poring over literature and scribbling it. Probably his greatest private passages are about death and humanity.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was an English author, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His very popular writings are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Robert was a key figure in his existence, and today ranks as the 26th highly interpreted writer in the world. His creativities have been appreciated by several other authors, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said that Stevenson "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".

His collection of short story comprises: New Arabian Nights; More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter; co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson; The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables; contains 6 stories; Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) contains three longer; stories; Fables contains 20 stories: The persons of the tale, The sinking ship, The two matches, The sick man and the fireman, The devil and the innkeeper, The penitent, The yellow paint, The house of Eld, The four reformers, The man and his friend, The reader, The citizen and the traveller, The distinguished stranger, The carthorse and the saddlehorse, The tadpole and the frog, something in it, Faith, half faith and no faith at all, and all others.