Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of "Treasure Island" and "The Master of Ballantrae."

People who love writing and/or the concepts behind it.

There are a lot of "how to write" esk books out there these days. They tend to be by writers that I've never heard of and/or try to offer the one and only answer. This doesn't. It just highlights his thoughts on writing, using his work as examples

Long, wordy paragraphs in a short book. I'm not a fan

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

It might give you ideas for your own writing

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