A Child's Garden of Verses, with a special preface by Mrs. Stevenson
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"Why," said a child listening to Stevenson's poems, "he did all the things that we do!" * * * * These famous poems of childhood owe much of their luminous understanding of children's play and imagination to the limited childhood spent by Stevenson. Kept i
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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