tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post285504665086780136..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: His mind was thronged with answerable ideas and images - the short fiction of Robert Louis StevensonAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24139725353814245712010-02-16T16:05:04.437-06:002010-02-16T16:05:04.437-06:00I suppose when the week is through I will have cov...I suppose when the week is through I will have covered most of the best Stevenson stories. I do not want to exaggerate their number.<br /><br />Thanks for the correction - funny how the writing brain works.<br /><br />Emily - I'm still working through the essays, but I'll go ahead and venture a reckless opinion: Stevenson is the best writer of familiar essays in English since Lamb and Hazlitt. His literary essays are just as good. "An Apology for Idlers" (which I read last night) is a typical specimen.<br /><br />I mean, don't expect <a href="http://www.eveningallafternoon.com/2010/02/essay-mondays-lamb.html" rel="nofollow">"Dream Children"</a>! Lamb didn't write two of those.<br /><br />Rebecca - I saw an Arthur Conan Doyle quote somewhere to the effect that Stevenson invented the English short story. Not quite true, but not quite false, either.<br /><br />mel - remember, everything Stevenson wrote is short! The "short stories" are just, um, shorter. Anyway, it will be easy to squeeze in some RLS.<br /><br />I suspect that Boswell's essays are period pieces, good versions of the sort of thing people were writing at that time. And, frankly, I don't trust Boswell as any sort of wisdom writer. But I would be happy to be wrong.<br /><br />Richard - inshallah, I will read <i>Kidnapped</i> this year.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71928260027385192902010-02-16T07:34:08.018-06:002010-02-16T07:34:08.018-06:00I enjoyed Stevenson's kids books. Didn't k...I enjoyed Stevenson's kids books. Didn't know he wrote short stories!Rebecca Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06062252252301802298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-39310670497282219672010-02-15T22:58:38.478-06:002010-02-15T22:58:38.478-06:00As a kid, I actually loved Kidnapped, Amateur Read...As a kid, I actually loved <em>Kidnapped</em>, Amateur Reader. Not sure that I've ever read a Stevenson short story, though. Looking forward to the rest of the week over here.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7011920603961171202010-02-15T19:16:27.438-06:002010-02-15T19:16:27.438-06:00I will find a way to read a first Stevenson this y...I will find a way to read a first Stevenson this year!<br /><br />Amateur reader (and others)-has any one read the essays of Boswell collected under the title The Hypocondriack-maybe 500 pages in two volumes-last in print in 1928?-I hope to read that this year-Mel uhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-60694849064539782842010-02-15T12:39:23.507-06:002010-02-15T12:39:23.507-06:00I'm due to read a couple of Stevenson essays t...I'm due to read a couple of Stevenson essays this week - do you have any opinion about how they stack up next to his fiction? ("An Apology for Idlers" and another one whose title I don't remember at the moment.)Emilyhttp://www.eveningallafternoon.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-56702979524754218902010-02-15T10:25:13.072-06:002010-02-15T10:25:13.072-06:00Will we receive a list of limited "truly grea...Will we receive a list of limited "truly great" stories? I might be adding Stevenson for the challenge. I am definitely reading "A Child's Garden of Verses" but hope to add many of the writers mentioned so far.<br />The editor in me must point out that you probably intended that the murderer "hears music" rather than "here's music".Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.com