Robert Louis Stevenson - Chapter & Verse: Poetry and prose together from literary greats.

Written by Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Alan Cumming and Ghizela Rowe

Literature is a world of words and wonder, able to take us on almost unimaginable journeys from the wild and fantastic to the grind and minutiae of life.

An author’s ideas are his building blocks, his architecture of the mind, building a structure on which all else will rest; the narrative, the characters, the words - those few words that begin the adventure.

In this series we look at some of our leading classic authors across two genres: the short story and the poem. In this modern world there is an insatiable need to categorise and pigeon-hole everyone and everything. But ideas, these grains and saplings of the brain, need to roam, to explore and find their perfect literary use vehicle. Our authors are masters of many literary forms, perhaps known for one but themselves favouring another.

Story. Poems. Story. Within these boundaries come all manner of invention and cast of characters. And, of course, each author has their own way of revealing their own chapter and verse.

1 - Chapter & Verse - Robert Louis Stevenson

2 - The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

3 - Death to the Dead For Evermore by Robert Louis Stevenson

4 - The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson

5 - A Song of the Road by Robert Louis Stevenson

6 - The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson

7 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

8 - The Canoe Speaks by Robert Louis Stevenson

9 - Men Are Heaven's Piers by Robert Louis Stevenson

10 - I Do Not Fear to Own Me Kin by Robert Louis Stevenson

11 - To by Robert Louis Stevenson

12 - Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson

13 - I Sit Up Here at Midnight by Robert Louis Stevenson

14 - Youth and Love by Robert Louis Stevenson

15 - A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson

16 - Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803541150

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.