Robert Louis Stevenson

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HOW very little does the amateur, dwelling at home at ease, comprehend the labours and perils of the author, and, when he smilingly skims the surface of a work of fiction, how little does he consider the hours of toil, consultation of authorities, researches in the Bodleian, correspondence with learned and illegible Germans - in one word, the vast scaffolding that was first built up and then knocked down, to while away an hour for him in a railway train!