A Footnote to History

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000678525
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 515.49 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Footnote to History
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Stevenson, R. L. (n.d.). A Footnote to History. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that, in spite of its outlandish subject, the sketch may find readers. It has been a task of difficulty. Speed was essential, or it might come too late to be of any service to a distracted country.