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Essays in the Art of Writing

Robert Louis Stevenson

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. . .Shakespeare’s second manner, and set it side by side with Falstaff’s praise of sherris, act iv. scene iii.; or let us compare the beautiful prose spoken throughout by Rosalind and Orlando; compare, for example, the first speech of all, Orlando’s speech to Adam, with what passage it shall please you to select—the Seven Ages from the same play, or even such a stave of nobility as Othello’s farewell to war; and still you will be able to perceive, if you have an ear for that class of music, a certain superior degree of organisation in the prose; a compacter fitting of the parts; a balance in the swing and the return as of a throbbing pendulum.  We must not, in things temporal, take from those who have little, the little that they have; the merits of prose are inferior, but they are not the same; it is a little kingdom, but an independent.

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It is a bit of a difficult read. Stevenson likes to dress up his language, which makes many of the passages wordy and inelegant. I found it to be more of a pep talk to himself.

ينبغي على الكاتب أن يتأكد من توافق ما يعرفه كل إنسان مع حقائق الحياة؛ وأن هذا الإنسان لن يتخيل نفسه ملاكا ولا وحشا، وأنه لن يتعامل مع هذا العالم باعتباره جحيما، ولن يشق على نفسه فيعتقد أن كافة الحقوق تتمركز في طائفته أو بلاده، أو أن سائر الحقائق محصورة في عقيدته الضيقة، على كل إنسان أن يعرف حقيقته ح

Do not get me wrong: Robert Louis Stevenson is an exceptional writer and one of the all-time classics. The three-star rating is because of the first two thirds of this collection.

In the first few essays, Stevenson speaks intelligently but in a way that outright refuses to be plain. The language and

This slim little volume of 150 odd pages tells me a number of things. Firstly, that I will probably never be as good a writer as Robert Louis Stevenson. Secondly, that much of the craft he practised on his writing sails far above my head, so I still have a great deal to learn before I'm even able to

Eseji velikih pisaca, posebna su vrsta zadovoljstva, tamo gde su oslobođeni očekivanja, sklonjenih čitalačkih reflektora i slobodni da pišu kako im volja, o čemu im volja, tamo ih najbolje upoznate.

Stivensonova pisanija lako i neumitno otkrivaju melanholičnog i dosadnjikavog čoveka, narušenog zdravl

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