Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Book Overview

"Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566192781
• ISBN13: 9781566192781
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.

Customer Reviews

enjoy robert louis stevenson

bought this when we returned from visiting edinburgh. realized i had never actually read robert louis stevenson. only had seen movies of his work. so was great to find out more about a city we loved visiting, and great to experience reading his writing. found out why his works are classics - he's a really good writer! made me want to read more of his work.

History and social insights as well as commentary

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes is a vividly written piece which could easily have been featured in our travel section but is presented here for its literary value as a passionate survey of famed British novelist Robert Louis Stevenson's birthplace. His notes include history and social insights as well as commentary and bring Edinburgh alive.