The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson, Fiction, Classics, Action & Adventure - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Stevenson, Fanny Van De Grift

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598186973 ISBN 13: 9781598186970

Verlag: Aegypan, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Stevenson Robert Louis

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Reseña del editor:

In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to the imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities. . . .

Biografía del autor:

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (1850 - 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers.

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• Verlag: Aegypan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1598186973
• ISBN 13: 9781598186970
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184