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The Misadventures of John Nicholson & The Story of A Lie
The Misadventures of John Nicholson The Story of A Lie Author:Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson wrote "The Story of a Lie" in the late 1870s (it appeared in the New Quarterly Magazine in October 1879), but it did not appear in book form until it was included in several of the multi-volume sets of his works around the turn of the century. "The Misadventures of John Nicholson" appeared in the 1887 Christmas Yule-Tide. In it Stevens... more »on makes use of his knowledge of California, acquired under conditions not so favorable as those in which he describes his hero. "Remembering The Misadventures of John Nicholson, The Story of a Lie and several such instances, one feels that he has less than just to fathers .The Iron has entered into his Souls, and some of the domestic scenes ate little bear than caricatures" The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson John Kelman« less