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Tales and Fantasies

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .ple act of piety - months and years had gone by, and John had never written. The habit of not writing, indeed, was already fixed before he had begun to come into his fortune; and it was only the difficulty of breaking this long silence that withheld him from an instant restitution of the money he had stolen or (as he preferred to call it) borrowed. In vain he sat before paper, attending on inspiration; that heavenly nymph, beyond suggesting the words 'my dear father,' remained obstinately silent; and presently John would crumple up the sheet and decide, as soon as he had 'a good chance,' to carry the money home in person. And this delay, which is indefensible, was his second step into the snares of fortune.

Ten years had passed, and John was drawing near to thirty. He had kept the promise of his boyhood, and was now of a lusty frame, verging toward corpulence; good features, good eyes, a genial manner, a ready laugh, a long pair of sandy whiskers, a dash of an A. . . Read More

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- Louie the Mustache - Feb 15, 2024

Tales and Fantasies is a compilation of two novellas and one short story published posthumously in 1905 by the Robert Louis Stevenson family, 11 years after his death. The three stories had never before been published in a book. The individual stories had appeared separately in periodicals and were

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- Bill - Sep 27, 2021

Contains three of Robert Louis Stevenson's works. Stevenson says so much in so few words - you have to take a brief pause to consider what is written. This book contains two novellas and one short story. They follow:

The Misadventures of John Nicholson (novella)

The story begins so:

"JOHN VAREY NICHOLS

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- Jim - Feb 21, 2016

great stories, somewhat in the fashion of o henry.

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- jim copley - Sep 04, 2014

They don't write like this today

There are many great writers today but the style of the past can't be duplicated and that is how it should be.

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