The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Vailima Edition

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000581378
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Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Vailima Edition
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Children's literature, Children's fiction
Collections:	Children's Literature Collection
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Publisher:	World Public Library Association


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Excerpt
Prefatory Note: ON Christmas day, 1888, we left Tahiti in the yacht Casco, and after a wild voyage of thirty days' duration arrived at Honolulu, with the intention of returning to England by way of America after a brief period of rest. We will start next week, we said; we will start next month, delaying our departure on any pretext, for we knew that once back in England our South Sea rovings would be over for ever. Our hearts followed every trading ship that left Honolulu. When the missionary vessel, The Morning Star, began to get ready for sea we could bear it no longer, and applied for passage to the Kingsmills. Knowing the life would be rougher than anything we had yet experienced, and it being evident that my mother-in-law, wearying for home, was disappointed by the change in our plans, it was decided she should go back to Scotland to wait there for our final return.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: PROLOGUE -- PAGE -- IN THE MARQUESAS, 23 -- THE YARN -- CHAPTER -- I. A SOUND COMMERCIAL EDUCATION 41 -- II. ROUSSILLON WINE 58 -- III. To INTRODUCE MR. PINKERTON, 73 -- IV. IN WHICH I EXPERIENCE EXTREMES -- OF FORTUNE, 94 -- V. IN WHICH I AM DOWN ON MY -- LUCK IN PARIS 112 -- VI. IN WHICH I Go WEST, 133 -- VII. IRONS IN THE FIRE: OPES -- STREPITUMQUE, 155 -- VIII. FACES ON THE CITY FRONT, 188 -- IX. THE WRECK OF THE FLYING -- SCUD 205 -- X. IN WHICH THE CREW VANISH., 225