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"The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 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 New York Herald (February–March 1891) and Black and White magazine (London, March–April 1891).
Weir of Hermiston (1896) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is markedly different from his previous works in style and has often been praised as a potential masterpiece. [1] [2] It was cut short by Stevenson's sudden death in 1894 from a cerebral haemorrhage. The novel is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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 .
Kidnapped is a two-part BBC television adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is directed by Brendan Maher and stars James Anthony Pearson as Davie Balfour and Iain Glen as Alan Breck.
George Woodcock wrote and hosted this series featuring the life and culture of various Pacific Ocean nations such as British Solomon Islands, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Tonga and Western Samoa. Woodcock published the 1976 book South Sea Journey which included research seen on this series. [1]
St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch.. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness.
A translation by Robert Belle Burke (1868–1944). [11] The mirror of alchimy, composed by the thrice-famous and learned fryer, Roger Bachon (1597). [12] Also a most excellent and learned discourse of the admirable force and efficacie of art and nature, written by the same author, with certaine other worthie treatises of the like argument.
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 are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English-language short story tradition.