Robert Louis Stevenson: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Smout’s Favourite Occupation....Pages 1-5
A Taste for Adventurous Tales....Pages 6-10
‘Cummy, I Was Just Telling Myself a Story!’....Pages 10-14
A Playmate beyond Compare....Pages 14-20
Quick and Bright but Somewhat Desultory Scholar....Pages 20-24
I Have Seen a Young Poet....Pages 24-27
A Poseur, Prone to Exaggerate Himself, Even to Himself....Pages 27-31
The Very Worst Ten Minutes I Ever Experienced....Pages 32-38
Delightfully and Fearlessly Boyish....Pages 38-42
Edinburgh Ale and Cold Meat Pies....Pages 42-45
A Wonderful Talker....Pages 45-49
I Do Not Remember an Ill-natured Remark....Pages 49-52
As Restless and Questing as a Spaniel....Pages 52-57
Sealed of the Tribe of Louis....Pages 57-61
A Touch of the Elfin and Unearthly....Pages 62-67
The Best of All Good Times at Grez....Pages 67-72
Industrious Idleness....Pages 72-76
Study the Masters....Pages 76-80
The Scotch Literary Mediocrity....Pages 81-84
The Silent and, Truth to Tell, Rather Dejected Youth....Pages 85-88
Submerged in Billows of Bedclothes....Pages 88-92
The Look as of the Ancient Mariner....Pages 92-96
A Rather Odd, Exotic, Theatrical Kind of Man....Pages 96-100
‘You Must Never, Never Write Like That Again’....Pages 100-104
Visiting Skerryvore....Pages 104-110
‘Looks Like a Sooercide, Don’t He, Sir?’....Pages 111-114
Beside Himself with Anger....Pages 115-118
A Most Affectionate Observer....Pages 118-122
Inventing One Project After Another....Pages 122-128
Buffalo Coat and Indian Moccasins....Pages 128-134
The Mannerly Stevenson....Pages 134-138
As Good a Listener as He was a Talker....Pages 138-143
Always Eager for Excitement....Pages 143-147
Everybody Felt Thoroughly at Home....Pages 147-151
Writings as Pure as Possible....Pages 152-157
Queer Birds — Mighty Queer Ones Too....Pages 157-163
The Misspent Sunday....Pages 164-169
The Soul of a Peasant....Pages 169-173
A Feast at Vailima....Pages 174-178
Patriarchal Relations....Pages 178-184
Working Away Every Morning Like Steam-engines....Pages 185-191
Barley-sugar Effigy of a Real Man....Pages 192-197
Whatever He Did He Did with His Whole Heart....Pages 197-202
Called Home....Pages 202-207
Back Matter....Pages 208-216