Topic: Robert Louis Stevenson

Published Date: EDINBURGH, he wrote, was not so much a city as the largest of small towns, not so much beautiful as interesting, and that, "in a...

Head east to Canada's gentle island

Treasure Island, one might think, is a jewel in the Caribbean, the locale of a Robert Louis Stevenson novel. In fact, it lies off Canada's east...
These are some short answer essay topics for Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island.". Character and Point of View. These short essay questions...
Delving into soul of Robert Louis Stevenson, the real-life Dr Jekyll • Mr Hyde in all his dastardly glory Picture: The Kobal Collection . Robert...

Poetry online, again

Boston University professor Robert Pinsky was Slate magazine's first poetry editor back in the 1990s, then devoted much of his energy to his...

Not in the mood

I ask the new landlord of the Bald Hind, who's manning the bar on his own tonight, for a pint of Stella. He's in his mid-fifties and wearing a clean, ironed skyblue shirt unbuttoned to the sternum. For a second ...

The weedy wanderer

The weedy wanderer ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON by Claire Harman HarperCollins, The biographers, like eager heirs round a deathbed, were amassing by Robert Louis Stevenson's side while he was still breathing. The story, they could tell, was going to be just to

From mourning into morning

From mourning into morning TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY: JOURNAL OF A DEATH NOT FORETOLD by Christopher Rush Profile, Grief hangs like a pall over the opening section of Christopher Rush's account of how he came to make a journey in the footsteps ...