Evidence: | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrived at a cottage carrying a heavy sack, which he left in a corner while he went, as he said, to the barn to get some sleep. The woman of the house, who lived by herself, happened to touch the sack, felt it moving, and knew at once that there was a man in it who had come to murder her... When I read "Treasure Island" a few years later the horrible figure of the blind seaman Pew brought back again the terrors of that dream.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899, 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Garth | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Edwin Muir |
Age | Unknown |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 15 May 1887 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer's son, later poet |
Religion: | Protestant |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Title: | Treasure Island |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 11335 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Edwin Muir | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The story and the fable: An autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1940 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 84-85 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Edwin Muir, The story and the fable: An autobiography (London, 1940), p. 84-85, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=11335, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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