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A Child's Garden of Verses

Hardcover • 1979 • English

A Child's Garden of Verses

By R.L. Stevenson

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About the book

With the poems in A Child’s Garden of Verses, Stevenson transports us back into the Victorian past and there we may find much to puzzle us. That a child would spend more time with his nurse than his mother is an unfamiliar idea. Stevenson took small children seriously. For the youngest of his readers Stevenson wrote and published, in 1885, the now famous volume of poems that he entitled A Child’s Garden of Verses. A garden where verses grow was Stevenson’s mental creation, but he was thinking ba...Show more

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1979

Language

English

Original title

A Child's Garden of Verses

Format

Hardcover

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