Stevenson gathered these papers in 1887 and found that together they made a kind of self-portrait. There are recollections of Edinburgh University and a short-lived college magazine, an old Scotch gardener, his grandfather’s manse and a Hebridean islet, essays on talk and on dogs, the toy theatre of his boyhood, and his celebrated defence of adventure fiction in A Gossip on Romance.
Stevenson the essayist at his most personal and charming, essential for anyone who loves Treasure Island. Download the free EPUB.