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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 .
The Suicide Club is an 1878 collection of three 19th-century detective fiction short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson that combine to form a single narrative. First published in the London Magazine in 1878, they were collected and republished in the first volume of the New Arabian Nights.
Memories and Portraits is a collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1887. Contents ... Thomas Stevenson; X. Talk And Talkers: First Paper;
A Trio and a Quartette is an 1894 novella written by Robert Louis Stevenson and his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. It was published the year Stevenson died. It was published the year Stevenson died. Plot
The book sold well but reviews were mixed, with a New York Times reviewer concluding that: [2] The Wrecker is a kind of blank-cartridge romance with a big explosion, which raises a dust, and if anything really has happened it escapes you in the flash and the cloud of smoke.
The book was the first of three novels that Stevenson co-wrote with Osbourne, who was his stepson. The others were The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894). Osbourne wrote the first draft of the novel late in 1887 (then called The Finsbury Tontine ), Stevenson revised it in 1888 (then called A Game of Bluff ) and again in 1889 when it was ...
Cloudline’s current airship model can carry 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of cargo, with the company’s goal to carry up to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) “within reach,” says Horne.
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.