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Robert Louis Stevenson
For other people named Robert Stevenson, see Robert Stevenson (disambiguation).
Scottish novelist and poet (–)
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November – 3 December ) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse,[1]Leslie Stephen and W.&#;E.&#;Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In , he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker realism. He died of a stroke in his island home in at age [2]
A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In , he was
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Books
- The Pentland Rising (Edinburgh: Privately printed, ).
- An Appeal to the Clergy (Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, ).
- An Inland Voyage (London: Kegan Paul, ; Boston: Roberts Brothers, ).
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, with Etchings (London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, ; New York: Macmillan, ).
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (London: Kegan Paul, ; Boston: Roberts Brothers, ).
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: Kegan Paul, ; New York: Collier, ).
- Familiar Studies of Men and Books (London: Chatto & Windus, ; New York: Dodd, Mead, ).
- New Arabian Nights (2 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, ; 1 volume, New York: Holt, ).
- The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto & Windus, ; New York: Munro, ).
- Treasure Island (London: Cassell, ; Boston: Roberts Brothers, ).
- A Child's Garden of Verses (London: Longmans, Green, ; New York: Scribners, ).
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, by Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (London: Longmans, Green, ; New York: Holt, ).
- Macaire (Edinburgh: Privately printed, ).
- Prince Otto: A Romance (London: Chatto & Windus, ; Boston: Roberts Brothers, ).
- Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (London: Longmans, Green, ; New York: Scribners, ).
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