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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K....
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialised in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title...
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- 1881 ,
- 1969
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- 21321 ,
- 175202
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll...
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- 1886
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- 69917
The Black Arrow
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, which can be classed genre-wise as a historical adventure novel and a romance. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle "A Tale of Tunstall Forest"...
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- 1883
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- 1888
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ISFDB ID:
- 175178
A Child's Garden of Verses
A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions....
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- 1905
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ISFDB ID:
- 878136
Kidnapped
Kidnapped is a historical fiction adventure novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Written as a "boys' novel" and first published in the magazine Young Folks from May to July 1886, the novel has attracted the praise and admiration of...
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The Body Snatcher
The Body Snatcher (1884) is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra" 13 (Dec 1884), the story portrays fictional circumstances and characters in the employ of Robert Knox at the...
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- Dec 1884
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The Bottle Imp
The Bottle Imp (1891) is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection Island Nights' Entertainments. It was first published in the Herald New York (Feb-March 1891) and Black and White London...
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The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is a book by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, focusing upon the conflict between two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.
In the first edition of...
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- 1889
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- 1889
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ISFDB ID:
- 175194
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879) is one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works and is considered a pioneering classic of outdoor literature.
Stevenson was in his late 20s and still dependent on his parents for support....
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- 1879
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The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters (1883) is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift (and her son Lloyd Osbourne) to Napa Valley, California in the late spring and early summer of 1880.
In July 1879,...
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- 1883
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- 1883
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ISFDB ID:
- 175205
Memories and Portraits
Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887.
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- 1894
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- Nov 1887
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ISFDB ID:
- 175287
The Story of a Recluse
The Story of a Recluse has been the title of at least three works of fiction.
The first, an unfinished tale by Robert Louis Stevenson, tells the story of Jamie Kirkwood, an Edinburgh minister's son who finds himself waking up in a room identical to...
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The New Arabian Nights
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories...
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- 1882
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- 1882
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ISFDB ID:
- 39148
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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- 1887
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- 1887
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ISFDB ID:
- 39149
Catriona
Catriona (also known as David Balfour), a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped. It tells the further story of the central character David Balfour, and has proven to be significantly less popular...
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- 1893
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- 1893
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ISFDB ID:
- 175630
Weir of Hermiston
Weir of Hermiston (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. Many have considered it his masterpiece. It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death from a cerebral hemorrhage. The novel is set in Edinburgh and the Lothians at the time...
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- 1896
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- 1896
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ISFDB ID:
- 175273
The Wrecker
The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves...
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- 1892
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- 1892
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ISFDB ID:
- 175281
The Wrong Box
The Wrong Box is a black comedy novel co-written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, first published in 1889. The story is about the last two surviving members of a tontine, who also happen to be brothers.
The book is notable for being the...
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- 1889
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ISFDB ID:
- 175235
More New Arabian Nights:The Dynamiter
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift.
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- Apr 1, 2005
Date of first publication:
- 1885
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ISFDB ID:
- 878721
Kidnapped
Kidnapped, a graphic novel version by Alan Grant (words) and Cam Kennedy (artwork), which is in turn adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. It was commissioned as part of the events to celebrate Edinburgh being named the first UNESCO City...
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- 1886
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ISFDB ID:
- 175198
Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts
Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts is the first story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
This is a 19th century...
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- 1878
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Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk
Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk is the second story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
This is a 19th century...
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- 1878
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The Adventure of the Hansom Cab
"The Adventure of the Hansom Cab" is the third and final story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
This is a 19th century...
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- 1878
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The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club is a cycle of three 19th century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume...
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The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond is a cycle of four short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1878 in a serial magazine they were republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights. The stories are:
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Story of the Bandbox
Story of the Bandbox is the first story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Rajah's Diamond cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
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- 1878
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Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders
Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders is the second story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Rajah's Diamond cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
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- 1878
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Story of the House with the Green Blinds
Story of the House with the Green Blinds is the third story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Rajah's Diamond cycle. First published in The London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of New Arabian Nights.
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- 1878
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The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective
The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective is the fourth and final story in Robert Louis Stevenson's The Rajah's Diamond cycle. First published in London Magazine in 1878 it was republished in the first volume of The New Arabian Nights.
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- 1878
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Prince Otto
Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885.
The novel was largely written during 1883. Stevenson referred to Prince Otto as "my hardest effort", one of the chapters was rewritten eight times by...
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- 1885
Date of first publication:
- Nov 1, 1885
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ISFDB ID:
- 875652
The Ebb-Tide
The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette (1894) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. It was published the same year Stevenson died.
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- 1894
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St. Ives
St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a...
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- 1897
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- 1897
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ISFDB ID:
- 175288
The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, With a Selection of the Best Short Novels.
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- Jun 1, 1969
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ISFDB ID:
- 175184
Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings (fiction and non fiction)
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- Sep 30, 2003
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ISFDB ID:
- 175218
The Complete Short Stories: The Centenary Edition
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- Mar 1, 1994
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ISFDB ID:
- 175260
Travels With A Donkey and An Inland Voyage (BCL1-PR English Literature)
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- Jan 1, 1909
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ISFDB ID:
- 175267
Letters (4 Volumes) (BCL1-PR English Literature)
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- Jan 1, 1911
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ISFDB ID:
- 175277
Newly Discovered Long Story, and Old Song and a Previously Unpublished Short Story, Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family
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- Jun 1, 1982
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- 175330
The Misadventures of John Nicholson & The Story of a Lie
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- Dec 1, 2002
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ISFDB ID:
- 175339
Talking of Mothers: Poems for Every Mother
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- May 1, 2001
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- 175387
The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson (The Scottish Library)
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- Nov 1, 1977
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ISFDB ID:
- 175391
