Lived-in Books
The way to read a book, Stevenson often seems to say, is to treat it as if it were life itself. Writing to John Addington Symonds about Crime and Punishment, ‘the greatest book I have read easily in...
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Not every academic (alas) deserves to be remembered after death, and even fewer academics deserve to be remembered by those outside the academic community. David Daiches, who died at age 92 in 2005,...
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Robert Louis Abrahamson has recorded dramatised versions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Fables. Here he reads ‘The Sick Man and the Fireman’: [flashvideo...
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