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Ballads
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A collection of narrative poems by Robert Louis Stevenson that retells legends drawn from Polynesian and Scottish traditions. Suited to readers interested in mythology, folklore, and nineteenth-century verse.
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Reader's First StepsAn introduction to the Scottish writer's shorter and lesser-known works held in this library, and where a newcomer might sensibly begin.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).
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