“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor.
“You need not hurt me,” said the book; “you will only get less for me second hand, and I did not write myself.”
For #WorldBookDay (UK), a fable about a book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Reader”
“What I know is this: if there is sich a thing as a Author, I’m his favourite chara’ter. He does me fathoms better’n he does you—fathoms, he does.”
—Long John Silver & Captain Smollett slip out between chapters of #TreasureIsland for a chat & a fly smoke in “The Persons of the Tale” – the first of #RobertLouisStevenson’s twenty FABLES, available as a free ebook from our website