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قراءة كتاب The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 9
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 9
THE WORKS OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
SWANSTON EDITION
VOLUME IX
Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies
have been printed, of which only Two Thousand
Copies are for sale.
This is No. ............
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| FACSIMILE OF NOTE FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS OF R. L. S. See also overleaf. |
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THE WORKS OF
ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON
VOLUME NINE
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM
HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN
AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS
MEMORIES AND PORTRAITS
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| I. | The Foreigner at Home | 7 |
| II. | Some College Memories | 19 |
| III. | Old Mortality | 26 |
| IV. | A College Magazine | 36 |
| V. | An Old Scots Gardener | 46 |
| VI. | Pastoral | 53 |
| VII. | The Manse | 61 |
| VIII. | Memoirs of an Islet | 68 |
| IX. | Thomas Stevenson | 75 |
| X. | Talk and Talkers: I. | 81 |
| XI. | Talk and Talkers: II. | 94 |
| XII. | The Character of Dogs | 105 |
| XIII. | A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured | 116 |
| XIV. | A Gossip on a Novel of Dumas’s | 124 |
| XV. | A Gossip on Romance | 134 |
| XVI. | A Humble Remonstrance | 148 |
MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN
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The Jenkins of Stowting—Fleeming’s grandfather—Mrs. Buckner’s fortune—Fleeming’s father; goes to sea; at St. Helena; meets King Tom; service in the West Indies; end of his career—The Campbell-Jacksons—Fleeming’s mother—Fleeming’s uncle John |
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| CHAPTER II 1833-1851 |
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Birth and childhood—Edinburgh—Frankfort-on-the-Main—Paris—The Revolution of 1848—The Insurrection—Flight to Italy—Sympathy with Italy—The insurrection in Genoa—A student in Genoa—The lad and his mother |
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| CHAPTER III 1851-1858 |
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Return to England—Fleeming at Fairbairn’s—Experience in a strike—Dr. Bell and Greek architecture—The Gaskells—Fleeming at Greenwich—The Austins—Fleeming and the Austins—His engagement—Fleeming and Sir W. Thomson |
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| CHAPTER IV 1859-1868 |
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Fleeming’s marriage—His married life—Professional difficulties—Life at Claygate—Illness of Mrs. F. Jenkin—and of Fleeming—Appointment to the Chair at Edinburgh |
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