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Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
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A collection of familiar essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, opening with reflections on love, marriage, and youth in the title piece and ranging across topics such as mortality and the art of living. Readers interested in Victorian literature and the personal essay will find it worthwhile.
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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