Vailima Letters

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Author：Robert Louis Stevenson
Update：08-15-2023
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Chapter List

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter I.
Chapter 4
Chapter I. Domestic Annals. Chapter II. The Northern Lights. Chapter III. The Bell Rock. Chapter IV. A Family of Boys. Chap. V. The Grandfather. VI. Alan Stevenson. VII. Thomas Stevenson. My materials for my great-grandfather are almost null; for my grandfather copious and excellent. Name, a puzzle. _A Scottish Family_, _A Family of Engineers_, _Northern Lights_, _The Engineers of the Northern Lights_: _A Family History_. Advise; but it will take long.
Chapter XXIII. of _The Wrecker_, then Belle, Lloyd, and I go up and make music furiously till about 2 (I suppose), when I turn into work again till 4; fool from 4 to half-past, tired out and waiting for the bath hour; 4.30, bath; 4.40, eat two heavenly mangoes on the verandah, and see the boys arrive with the pack-horses; 5, dinner; smoke, chat on verandah, then hand of cards, and at last at 8 come up to my room with a pint of beer and a hard biscuit, which I am now consuming, and as soon as they are consumed I shall turn in.
Chapter I. Elements of Discord-Native. II. Elements of Discord-Foreign. III.
Chapter IX. gapes for me, but I shrink on the margin, and go on chattering to you. This last part will be much less offensive (strange to say) to the Germans. It is Becker they will never forgive me for; Knappe I pity and do not dislike; Becker I scorn and abominate. Here is the tableau. I. Elements of Discord: Native. II. Elements of Discord: Foreign. III. The Sorrows of Laupepa. IV. Brandeis. V. The Battle of Matautu. VI. Last Exploits of Becker. VII. The Samoan Camps. VIII.
Chapter XVII. I shall get David abroad-Alan went already in Chapter XII. The book should be about the length of _Kidnapped_; this early part of it, about D."s evidence in the Appin case, is more of a story than anything in _Kidnapped_, but there is no doubt there comes a break in the middle, and the tale is practically in two divisions. In the first James More and the M"Gregors, and Catriona, only show; in the second, the Appin case being disposed of, and James Stewart hung, they rule the roast and usurp the interest-should there be any left. Why did I take up _David Balfour_? I don"t know. A sudden pa.s.sion.
Chapter 10
Chapter XX. to-day, and feel it all ready to froth when the spigot is turned.
Chapter XXII.
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter of the Justice Clerk; it took me about ten days, and requires another athletic dressing after all. And that is my story for the month.
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter X. is now in Lloyd"s hands for remarks, and extends in its present form to p. 93 incl. On the 12th of May, I see by looking back, I was on p. 82, not for the first time; so that I have made 11 pages in nine livelong days. Well! up a high hill he heaved a huge round stone. But this Flaubert business must be resisted in the premises. Or is it the result of influenza? G.o.d forbid. f.a.n.n.y is down now, and the last link that bound me to my fellow men is severed. I sit up here, and write, and read Renan"s _Origines_, which is certainly devilish interesting; I read his Nero yesterday, it is very good, O, very good! But he is quite a Michelet; the general views, and such a piece of character painting, excellent; but his method sheer lunacy. You can see him take up the block which he had just rejected, and make of it the corner-stone: a maddening way to deal with authorities; and the result so little like history that one almost blames oneself for wasting time. But the time is not wasted; the conspectus is always good, and the blur that remains on the mind is probably just enough. I have been enchanted with the unveiling of Revelations. And how picturesque that return of the false Nero! The Apostle John is rather discredited. And to think how one had read the thing so often, and never understood the attacks upon St. Paul! I remember when I was a child, and we came to the Four Beasts that were all over eyes, the sickening terror with which I was filled.
Chapter XI. the worst of the lot. The truth is of course that I am wholly worked out; but it"s nearly done, and shall go somehow according to promise. I go against all my G.o.ds, and say it is _not worth while_ to ma.s.sacre yourself over the last few pages of a rancid yarn, that the reviewers will quite justly tear to bits. As for D.B., no hope, I fear, this mail, but we"ll see what the afternoon does for me.
Chapter 20
Chapter I. seems about right to me, and much of Chapter II. Chapter III.
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25