The Art of Writing

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Overview

Long essay that begins: "There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455370955
Publisher:	Seltzer Books
Publication date:	12/05/2017
Series:	cover
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	475 KB

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson, born in 1850, traveled extensively during his short life (died 1894), which enlarged his imagination to the life of pirates, sea adventures, and stories particularly popular with young adult readers. He took seriously the task of writing, failing to achieve success with his early ventures, but attaining a kind of immortality with Treasure Island, Kidnapped, the Jekyll and Hyde story and others.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875

Table of Contents

	On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature
	The Morality of the Profession of Letters
	Books Which have Influenced Me
	A Note on Realism
	My First Book: 'Treasure Island'
	The Genesis of 'the Master of Ballantrae'
	Preface to 'the Master of Ballantrae'