Essays in the Art of Writing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536856040)

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN-10: 1536856045
ISBN-13: 9781536856040
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2016
Pages: 44
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d