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    The Land of Counterpane
    The Land of Counterpane
    The Land of Counterpane
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    The Land of Counterpane

    By Robert Louis Stevenson and Nancy Harrison

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    Sheets become plains, and pillows hills, in this Robert Louis Stevenson poem about a child who plays with toy soldiers while sick in bed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Child's World
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9781614731535
    The Land of Counterpane
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    Robert Louis Stevenson

    Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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