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    A Lodging for the Night
    A Lodging for the Night
    A Lodging for the Night
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    A Lodging for the Night

    By Robert Louis Stevenson

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    Classic short story, set in Paris in 1456. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850 - 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. He was also greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, and J. M. Barrie. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their definition of modernism. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455359271
    A Lodging for the Night
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, travel writer, poet, and children’s author. Plagued by poor health his entire life, he was nevertheless an amazingly prolific writer, and created some of the most influential and entertaining fiction of the nineteenth century, including Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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      A Lodging for the Night - Robert Louis Stevenson

      A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Books by Robert Louis Stevenson:

      Across the Plains

      The Art of Writing

      Ballads

      Black Arrow

      The Bottle Imp

      Catriona or David Balfour (sequel to Kidnapped)

      A Child's Garden of Verses

      The Ebb-Tide

      Edinburgh

      Essays

      Essays of Travel

      Fables

      Familiar Studies of Men and Books

      Father Damien

      Footnote to History

      In the South Seas

      An Inland Voyage

      Island Nights' Entertainments

      Kidnapped

      Lay Morals

      Letters

      Lodging for the Night

      Markheim

      Master of Ballantrae

      Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

      Memories and Portraits

      Merry Men

      Moral Emblems

      New Arabian Nights

      New Poems

      The Pavilion on the Links

      Four Plays

      The Pocket R. L. S.

      Prayers Written at Vailima

      Prince Otto

      Records of a Family of Engineers

      The Sea Fogs

      The Silverado Squatters

      Songs of Travel

      St. Ives

      The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

      Tales and Fantasies

      Thrawn Janet

      Travels with a Donkey

      Treasure Island

      Underwoods

      Vailima Letters

      Virginibus Puerisque

      The Waif Woman

      Weir of Hermiston

      The Wrecker

      The Wrong Box

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      It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people, looking up under moist eyebrows, it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon, at a tavern window: was it only pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus? or were the holy angels moulting? He was only a poor Master of Arts, he went on; and as the question somewhat touched upon divinity, he durst not venture to conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis, who was among the company, treated the young rascal to a bottle of wine in honour of the jest and grimaces with which it was accompanied, and swore on his own white beard that he had been just such another irreverent dog when he was Villon's age.

      The air was raw and pointed, but not far below freezing; and the flakes were large, damp, and adhesive. The whole city was sheeted up. An army might have marched from end to end and not a footfall

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