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020			_a9781609385194 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aPR5496 _b.T487 2017
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aFederico, Annette, _d1960- _e1
245	1	0	_aThus I lived with words : _bRobert Louis Stevenson and the writer's craft / _cAnnette R. Federico.
246	3	0	_aRobert Louis Stevenson and the writer's craft
260			_aIowa City : _bUniversity of Iowa Press, _c(c)2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) loved more than anything to talk about the craft of writing and the pleasure of reading good books. His dedication to the creative impulse manifests itself in the extraordinary amount of work he produced in virtually every literary genre--fiction, poetry, travel writing, and essays--in a short and peripatetic life. His letters, especially, confess his elation at the richness of words and the companionship of books, often projected against ill health and the shadow of his own mortality. Stevenson belonged to a newly commercial literary world, an era of mass readership, marketing, and celebrity. He had plenty of practical advice for writers who wanted to enter the profession: study the best authors, aim for simplicity, strike a keynote, work on your style. He also held that a writer should adhere to the truth and utter only what seems sincere to his or her heart and experience of the world. Writers have messages to deliver, whether the work is a tale of Highland adventure, a collection of children's verse, or an essay on umbrellas. Stevenson believed that an author could do no better than to find the appetite for joy, the secret place of delight that is the hidden nucleus of most people's lives. His remarks on how to write, on style and method, and on pleasure and moral purpose contain everything in literature and life that he cared most about--adventuring, persisting, finding out who you are, and learning to embrace "the romance of destiny.""-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0	0	_aPreface -- _tR.L.S. -- _tRomance -- _tPlay -- _tSimplicity -- _tReading -- _tTruth -- _tTeaching -- _tStyle -- _tDreams.
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600	1	0	_aStevenson, Robert Louis, _d1850-1894 _xCriticism and interpretation.
600	1	0	_aStevenson, Robert Louis, _d1850-1894.
650		0	_aAuthorship.
650		0	_aLiterary style.
650		0	_aValues in literature.
650		0	_aAuthors, Scottish _y19th century _vBiography.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell