Life and works of robert louis stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Who Was Robert Louis Stevenson?
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson traveled often, and his global wanderings lent themselves well to his brand of fiction. Stevenson developed a desire to write early in life, having no interest in the family business of lighthouse engineering. He was often abroad, usually for health reasons, and his journeys led to some of his early literary works. Publishing his first volume at the age of 28, Stevenson became a literary celebrity during his life when works such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde were released to eager audiences.
Early Life
Robert Louis efternamn Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, , to Thomas and Margaret Stevenson. Lighthouse design was his father's and his family's yrke, and so at the age 17, Stevenson enrolled at Edinburgh University to study engineering, with the goal of following his father in the family business. Lighthouse de
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Robert Louis Stevenson is not only remarkable for the number of works he produced in his twenty-year literary career, but also for the range of genres he adopted: essays, travel writing, short stories, novels and romances, as well as poetry, plays and biography. Stevenson also composed music for the flageolet. Within these genres, too, his output is remarkable for what Henry James calls his &#;constant variety of experiment&#;.
The Works pages are devoted to all of the works RLS produced (including a page on his music). You can browse the works by genre, in the left-hand menu, or chronologically in the menu below. Once you click on a work, you will find a brief synopsis and the full-text of the work, provided by the Internet Archive.
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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,