Power Search
Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
An Inland Voyage
Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author), Stevenson, R. L. (Author), 1st World Library (Editor)

View larger image

 ISBN: 1595405011     ISBN-13: 9781595405012
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
OUR PRICE: $10.40  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2004
Qty:
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Dewey: B
Lexile Measure: 1040
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.41 lbs) 140 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in his preface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour. It is best, in such circumstances, to represent a delicate shade of manner between humility and superiority: as if the book had been written by some one else, and you had merely run over it and inserted what was good. But for my part I have not yet learned the trick to that perfection; I am not yet able to dissemble the warmth of my sentiments towards a reader; and if I meet him on the threshold, it is to invite him in with country cordiality.
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!