Download or read book A Lodging for the Night (Annotated) written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was late in November 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people, looking up under moist eyebrows, it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon, at a tavern window: was it only pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus?