Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson.Virginibus Puerisque (1881) was Stevenson's first collection of essays. With a volume that would have been considered personal essays in the Lamb and Hazlitt tradition, the volume brought together essays previously published in the prestigious Cornhill magazine ("Walking Tours" and "Virginibus Puerisque" [1876]; "On Falling in Love" and "Apology for Idlers" [1877]; "Crabbed Age and Youth", "Aes Triplex", "English Admirals" and "Child's Play" [1878]; "Truth of Intercourse" [1879]), as well as printed essays at Macmillan's ("Ordered South" [1874]) and London ("A Plea for Gas Lamps", "Pan's Pipes" and "El Dorado" [1878]) and the unpublished "Some Portraits by Raeburn" and the second part of "Virginibus Puerisque "The essays promote a spirit of play that defies both the difficulties of human life and the constraints imposed by bourgeois philistinism. The volume did not sell well, but had a good critical reception, confirming the author of Inland Voyage (1878) and Travels with a Donkey (1879) as one of the rising stars on the literary scene, notable for his youthful and elegant spirit., if sometimes too flashy, literary style.Compared to the previous days, people today are much more reluctant to get married, as seen when comparing characters in Shakespeare's plays