Familiar Studies of Men and Books

*Familiar Studies of Men and Books* is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's critical and biographical essays on figures including François Villon, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Robert Burns. It suits readers interested in Victorian literary criticism and Stevenson's non-fiction prose. *(Note: this collection was first published in 1882; the 1996 date above is presumably a reprint edition.)*