Opis: The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic Reprint) - Sanchez Nellie van de Grift

Excerpt from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

When I first set out to tell the life story of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, I received the following letter from her old friend Mr. Bruce Porter:

"Once when I urged your sister to set down the incidents of her life she listened, pondered, and then dismissed the suggestion as impossible, as her life had been like a dazed rush on a railroad express, and she despaired of recovering the incidental memories. The years with Stevenson have of course been adequately told, but the earlier period - Indianapolis and California - had a romance as stirring, even if sharpened by the American glare. This sharpness has already, for all of us, begun to fade, to take on the glamour of time and distance, and I cannot think of a better literary service than to make the fullest possible record now, before it utterly fades away."

It was not only the difficulty of recalling events that caused her to resist all urgings to undertake this task, but a certain shy reluctance in speaking of herself that was characteristic of her. It has, therefore, fallen to me to collect the widely scattered material from various parts of the world and weave it into a coherent whole as best I may, but my regret will never cease that she did not herself tell her own story.

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Szczegóły: The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic Reprint) - Sanchez Nellie van de Grift

Nazwa: The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Sanchez Nellie van de Grift
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331329428
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 390
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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