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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) 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 .
Illustration to Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" by William Hatherell (1855–1928) Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894.
The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair. The pieces first appeared in fifty-three weekly pieces from February 28, 1846 to February 27, 1847, as "The Snobs of England, by one of themselves", in the satirical magazine Punch .
Robert Louis Stevenson (stepfather) Edward Salisbury Field (brother-in-law) Samuel Lloyd Osbourne (April 7, 1868 – May 22, 1947) was an American author and the stepson of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson , with whom he co-authored three books, including The Wrecker .
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 two brothers who are the last two surviving members of a tontine. The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson.
04 Mar 2004: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; 04 Mar 2004: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson; 04 Mar 2004: Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe; 04 Mar 2004: Walden by Henry David Thoreau; 04 Mar 2004: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; 04 Mar 2004: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by ...
The book since I read it in black, pouring weather on Tweedside, has always haunted and puzzled me. It is without doubt a real work of imagination, ponderated and achieved. The novel Gilchrist (1994) by Maurice Leitch is a reworking of Confessions in a contemporary Northern Ireland setting, with a central character loosely based on Ian Paisley.
Tales and Fantasies is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. [1] The book was published posthumously in 1905. [2] [3] It contains three stories, [4] which were not published as a part of a collection during Stevenson′s lifetime: "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story" (1885–87).