The studies are "familiar" in the sense of "informal" or "conversational" in style. They attempt to bring their subjects to life, often by creating novelistic

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson.(1882) provided a kind of complementary piece to Virginibus Puerisque, reprinting the most literary and critical essays that were left out of the first collection. In her Preface, she describes the contents as "the readings of a literary tramp". The volume contains nine essays: seven essays that previously appeared in Cornhill Magazine ("Victor Hugo's Romances" [1874]; "Charles of Orleans" [1876]; "François Villon, Student, Poet and Housebreaker" [1877]; "Some Aspects of Robert Burns "[1879];" Henry David Thoreau: his character and opinions "and" Yoshida-Torajiro "[1880];" Samuel Pepys "[1881]), one of Macmillan (" John Knox and his relations with the Women "" [1875]) and one from New Quarterly Magazine ("Walt Whitman", 1878). Stevenson added a "Preface, by way of criticism," offering his own evaluation of his essays, often showing how their views have changed since the essays were first written.The studies are "familiar" in the sense of "informal" or "conversational" style. They attempt to bring their themes to life, often creating novel characterizations of men and addressing books from the point of view of a committed reader rather than an academic critic.

Of the nine essays collected in this volume, seven had appeared in the ' Cornhill Magazine. ' The whole set range in date from 1874 to 1881, and thus belong to the period of Stevenson's life during which the papers in Virginibus Puerisque were written. The ' familiar studies ' are Victor Hugo's Romances, Some Aspects Of Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Yoshido Torajiro, François Villon, Charles of Orleans, Samuel Pepys, and John Knox and Women. In arranging them for republication R. L. S. prefaced them by some notes of self-criticism, in which he is at much pains to show where, as he thought, he had accorded less than full justice to his subjects.

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Published together in 1882, these essays explore the works of nine writers from around the world and across the centuries.

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