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    The Great North Road by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Great North Road’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Stevenson includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

    eBook features:
    * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Great North Road’
    * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Stevenson’s works
    * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook
    * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786567888
    The Great North Road by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish poet, novelist, and travel writer. Born the son of a lighthouse engineer, Stevenson suffered from a lifelong lung ailment that forced him to travel constantly in search of warmer climates. Rather than follow his father’s footsteps, Stevenson pursued a love of literature and adventure that would inspire such works as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879).

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      The Great North Road by Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated) - Robert Louis Stevenson

      The Complete Works of

      ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      VOLUME 14 OF 60

      The Great North Road

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 4

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Great North Road’

      Robert Louis Stevenson: Parts Edition (in 60 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 788 8

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Robert Louis Stevenson: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 14 of the Delphi Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson in 60 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Great North Road from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Robert Louis Stevenson or the Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      IN 60 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Treasure Island

      2, The Black Arrow

      3, Prince Otto

      4, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      5, Kidnapped

      6, The Master of Ballantrae

      7, The Wrong Box

      8, The Wrecker

      9, Catriona

      10, The Ebb-Tide

      11, Weir of Hermiston

      12, St. IVes

      13, Heathercat

      14, The Great North Road

      15, The Young Chevalier

      The Short Story Collections

      16, New Arabian Nights

      17, More New Arabian Nights - the Dynamiter

      18, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

      19, Island Nights’ Entertainments

      20, Fables

      21, Tales and Fantasies

      22, Uncollected Stories

      The Plays

      23, The Charity Bazaar

      24, Deacon Brodie

      25, Beau Austin

      26, Admiral Guinea

      27, Macaire

      The Poetry Collections

      28, A Child’s Garden of Verses

      29, Underwoods

      30, Ballads

      31, Songs of Travel and Other Verses

      32, Additional Poems

      33, New Poems and Variant Readings

      The Travel Writing

      34, An Inland Voyage

      35, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

      36, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

      37, Essays of Travel

      38, Across the Plains

      39, The Silverado Squatters

      40, The Old and New Pacific Capitals

      The Non-Fiction

      41, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

      42, Familiar Studies of Men and Books

      43, Memories and Portraits

      44, Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

      45, Records of a Family of Engineers

      46, Additional Memories and Portraits

      47, Later Essays

      48, Lay Morals and Other Papers

      49, Prayers Written for Family Use at Vailima

      50, A Footnote to History

      51, In the South Seas

      52, Letters from Samoa

      53, Juvenilia and Other Papers

      54, Pierre Jean de Béranger Article

      The Letters

      55, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson

      56, Vailima Letters

      The Biographies

      57, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Sir Graham Balfour

      58, Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander H. Japp

      59, The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls by Jacqueline M. Overton

      60, The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

      www.delphiclassics.com

      The Great North Road

      AN UNFINISHED NOVEL.

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I — NANCE AT THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’

      CHAPTER II — IN WHICH MR. ARCHER IS INSTALLED

      CHAPTER III — JONATHAN HOLDAWAY

      CHAPTER IV — MINGLING THREADS

      CHAPTER V — LIFE IN THE CASTLE

      CHAPTER VI — THE BAD HALF-CROWN

      CHAPTER VII — THE BLEACHING-GREEN

      CHAPTER VIII — THE MAIL GUARD

      CHAPTER I — NANCE AT THE ‘GREEN DRAGON’

      Nance Holdaway was on her knees before the fire blowing the green wood that voluminously smoked upon the dogs, and only now and then shot forth a smothered flame; her knees already ached and her eyes smarted, for she had been some while at this ungrateful task, but her mind was gone far away to meet the coming stranger. Now she met him in the wood, now at the castle gate, now in the kitchen by candle-light; each fresh presentment eclipsed the one before; a form so elegant, manners so sedate, a countenance so brave and comely, a voice so winning and resolute — sure such a man was never seen! The thick-coming fancies poured and brightened in her head like the smoke and flames upon the

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