Songs of Travel and Other Verses

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Songs of Travel and Other Verses is a 1896 book of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Originally published by Chatto & Windus,^[1] it explores the author's perennial themes of travel and adventure. The work gained a new public and popularity when it was set to music in Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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^ Wiliam Lyon Phelps (2006). Essays On Modern Novelists. Kessinger Publishing. p. 288.

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Books	An Inland Voyage (1878) Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) The Silverado Squatters (1883) Memories and Portraits (1887) Across the Plains (1892) The Amateur Emigrant (1895)

Novels	Treasure Island (1883) Prince Otto (1885) Kidnapped (1886) The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888) The Master of Ballantrae (1889) The Wrong Box (1889) The Wrecker (1892) Catriona (1893) The Ebb-Tide (1894) Weir of Hermiston (1896) St. Ives (1897)

Short story collections	The Suicide Club (1878) The Rajah's Diamond (1878) New Arabian Nights (1882) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)

Short stories	Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts (1878) Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk (1878) The Adventure of the Hansom Cab (1878) Story of the Bandbox (1878) Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders (1878) Story of the House with the Green Blinds (1878) The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective (1878) The Pavilion on the Links (1880) The Merry Men (1882) The Body Snatcher (1884) Markheim (1885) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) The Bottle Imp (1891) The Beach of Falesá (1892) The Isle of Voices (1893)

Poetry	A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) Underwoods (1887) Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

Related articles	Lloyd Osbourne Fanny Stevenson Mount Vaea Robert Louis Stevenson State Park The Story of a Recluse (unfinished) Category:Films based on works by Robert Louis Stevenson

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