Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "An Inland Voyage" is a travelogue about authors canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. This book is one of Stevensons early works pioneering the genre of outdoor literature.
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. The story of "The Beach of Falesa" is told from John Wiltshires point of view, a British copra trader on the fictional island of Falesa in the South Sea. There he meets a trader Case, who arranges a marriage for him and a local girl Uma. After that John...
Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. In "Crotchet Castle" the author assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humour and social satire from their various interactions and conversations.