Edinburgh – Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 | 1st Edition

Edinburgh – Robert Louis Stevenson (1912)

This evocative travel essay by Robert Louis Stevenson (published posthumously) is a love letter to his birthplace, weaving personal memories with vivid observations of the city’s dual nature: the “Old Town” with its haunted closes and “New Town” Georgian elegance. Written in his signature lyrical prose, it captures Edinburgh’s foggy mystique, literary ghosts (like Burns and Scott), and the “romantic ugliness” that shaped his imagination.

For Fans of Literary Travel Writing:

• The Companion Guide to Edinburgh – David Daiches – A modern complement.
• Pictures from Italy – Charles Dickens – Another Victorian’s keen-eyed travels.
• The Stones of Venice – John Ruskin – Architecture-as-moral-portrait.

“A city built on crags and character—seen through the mist of memory.”