A Childs Garden Of Verses, A - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851583912 ISBN 13: 9781851583911

Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

First published in 1885, Stevenson's verses so truly reflect the feelings of young childrenabout being small, the bliss of going up in a swing so high, discovering one's shadow, happiness and sorrow, and dreamingthat they have never ceased to be an essential part of a child's library.

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About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. He was an intelligent but sickly child and so he started to make up stories to entertain himself. He once wrote, 'I have three powerful impressions of childhood: my sufferings when I was sick, my delights in convalescence at my grandfather's manse of Colinton, near Edinburgh, and the unnatural activity of my mind after I was in bed at night.' During the summer of 1881, Stevenson and his family were staying in a cottage in Braemar in Scotland. One afternoon he began drawing a map to amuse his stepson, but found that he himself was carried away, 'As I pored upon my map of "Treasure Island", the future characters of the book began to appear there visibly among imaginary woods: and their brown faces and bright weapons peeped out upon me from unexpected quarters ... the next thing I knew, I had some papers before me and was writing out a list of chapters'. And so Treasure Island was begun and published in 1881. Robert Louis Stevenson is the author of Kidnapped and The Children's Garden of Verses as well as the adult book, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. During his short life Stevenson travelled the world from the South Pacific to the USA, Europe to Australia. He died at the age of 44 years old on a small Samoan island in the Pacific.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851583912
• ISBN 13: 9781851583911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Robinson Charles
• Number of pages: 160