A Christmas Sermon: By Robert Louis Stevenson - Illustrated
- ISBN-10
- 1521980977
- ISBN-13
- 9781521980972
- Series
- A Christmas Sermon
- Pages
- 65
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-03
- Author
- Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson
Description
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In this novella he meditates on the questions of death, morality and man's main task in life which he concludes is "To be honest, to be kind -- to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence." The piece was to be published in Scribner's magazine the following December. This pamphlet edition is from 1900, published 6 years after Stevenson's death at the age of just 44. Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins".
