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The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, 1666: The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, VoL. 22
202 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2025
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Robert Louis Stevenson
6,962 books7,064 followersRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
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February 9, 2026
A short, sharp, but certainly not sweet account of an early episode in the bloody history of the Scottish Covenanters. The sixteen-year-old Stevenson demonstrates his prodigious gifts as a writer through the controlled build up of tension and use of vivid metaphors. The citation of many and varied historical sources also makes this a fine work of Victorian memorialization.
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