Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings Subject; which fact alone he regarded as a suf ficient mark of identification. Or it may be that the publisher, not being gifted with ade quate prophetic endowments, was unable to foresee his young author's future importance, and therefore eliminated the two intimate passages on the ground that they would neither instruct nor amuse contemporary read ers. In the study of a popular author and his works, the public is entitled to all the existent facts, ...
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Excerpt from Robert Louis Stevenson: Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings Subject; which fact alone he regarded as a suf ficient mark of identification. Or it may be that the publisher, not being gifted with ade quate prophetic endowments, was unable to foresee his young author's future importance, and therefore eliminated the two intimate passages on the ground that they would neither instruct nor amuse contemporary read ers. In the study of a popular author and his works, the public is entitled to all the existent facts, and however much or. However little these suppressed passages may be worth as lit erature they are assuredly interesting as a sidelight upon Stevenson's first printed book. Their apparent amateurishness becomes a fea ture of additional interest when we consider the heights to which the author of An Inland Voyage afterwards attained as a master of rhetoric. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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