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Christmas at sea

The Pisces moon recalls the oceanic themes of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "Christmas at Sea,": "The frost was on the ...
You could spend days in here,” Mike Delahant said as he showed state Assemblyman Michael S. Cashman around the Robert Louis ...
I am sorry to say I haven’t read anything by Robert Louis Stevenson (RLS to scholars, Louis to his friends), but I’ve come close by reading Brian Doyle’s The Adventures of John Carson in Several ...
Discover Robert Louis Stevenson's 1887-88 winter in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Read his vivid quotes about brutal cold, his poem "Winter," and his literary output.
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...
Between hanging out with literary pals like Henry James, traveling from Scotland to St. Helena to Samoa, and battling nagging illnesses, it’s amazing that Robert Louis Stevenson ever found time to ...
Come hear a captivating lecture about Robert Louis Stevenson up at the U’s Alumni House. The University of Utah College of Humanities is presenting “Imperial Ears: Robert Louis Stevenson in Oceana.” ...
In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a small Oceanside village called Monterey. He would be there only a short period, but the impact of that village would stay with him the ...
A DOZEN years ago, more or less, and somewhere in that zone of forest landscape which lies near to the heart of Nature and of Paris, and is dear to artists, a company of pilgrims were come together in ...
A Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco originally commissioned by the widow of famed author Robert Louis Stevenson is for sale for $13.8 million. Click here if viewing from a mobile device. Stevenson ...
If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...