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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 - - IT WAS a beautiful morn… Mehr…

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 - - IT WAS a beautiful morning in the late July when I set forth on foot for the last time for Aros. A boat had put me ashore the night before at Grisapol; I had such breakfast as the little inn afforded, and, leaving all my baggage till I had an occasion to come round for it by sea, struck right across the promontory with a cheerful heart. I was far from being a native of these parts, springing, as I did, from an unmixed lowland stock. But an uncle of mine, Gordon Darnaway, after a poor, rough youth, and some years at sea, had married a young wife in the islands; Mary Maclean she was called, the last of her family; and when she died in giving birth to a daughter, Aros, the sea-girt farm, had remained in his possession. It brought him in nothing but the means of life, as I was well aware; but he was a man whom ill-fortune had pursued; he feared, cumbered as he was with the young child, to make a fresh adventure upon life; and remained in Aros, biting his nails at destiny. Years passed over his head in that isolation, and brought neither help nor contentment. Meantime our family was dying out in the lowlands; there is little luck for any of that race; and perhaps my father was the luckiest of all, for not only was he one of the last to die, but he left a son to his name and a little money to support it. I was a student of Edinburgh University, living well enough at my own charges, but without kith or kin; when some news of me found its way to Uncle Gordon on the Ross of Grisapol; and he, as he was a man who held blood thicker than water, wrote to me the day he heard of my existence, and taught me to count Aros as my home. Thus it was that I came to spend my vacations in that part of the country, so far from all society and comfort, between the codfish and the moorcocks; and thus it was that now, when I had done with my classes, I was returning thither with so light a heart that July day. Books List_Books<

ISBN: 9781595405142

The Merry Men is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine 45-6 (June-July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection The Me… Mehr…

The Merry Men is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine 45-6 (June-July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887). It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid. The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood tales. Eilean (Scottish Gaelic for island) Aros, the fictional island setting of the story, is based on the Isle of Erraid in the Inner Hebrides. Stevenson wrote of his time there in his collection of essays Memories and Portraits, where he says there is another isle in my collection, the memory of which besieges me. I put a whole family there, in one of my tales; and later on, threw upon its shores, and condemned to several days of rain and shellfish on its tumbled boulders, the hero of another. It is possible that the stranger from the Sea may be the Devil. There was a long tradition in Scotland that the Devil appeared as a black man (Stevenson mentions this in a footnote to Thrawn Janet, another story in the same collection.) Also, Gordon earlier claimed that the Sea was the work of the Devil. A parallel can be drawn between this story and the later Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, another story of an isolated man driven mad by Nature. Interestingly, Gordon's rant about the Devil living in the Sea ends with him moaning, The horror! The horror of the sea! ...which is echoed in Conrad in Kurtz's last message: The horror! The horror! Exterminate all the brutes! Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction Literary>Fict Literary, 1st World Library Core >1<

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Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2004, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: The Merry Men, Autor: Stevenson, Robert Louis // Stevenson, R. L., Redaktion: 1stworld Library, Verlag: 1st World Library - Literary Society, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: FICTION // Classics, Rubrik: Belletristik // Romane, Erzählungen, Seiten: 304, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 408 gr, Verkäufer: averdo Belletristik<

ISBN: 1595405143

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