A Childs Garden of Verses
(2013)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Read Books Ltd., 2013
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (184 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781473388499 MWT11941801, 147338849X 11941801
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A Child's Garden of Verses is a book written by Robert Louis Stevenson - it is here accompanied by the splendid illustrations of Jessie Willcox Smith. Stevenson (1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, most famous for penning Treasure Island, and the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry, which first appeared in 1885, under the title of Penny Whistles. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."
Mode of access: World Wide Web