Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850–1894)

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Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror; cousin of Katharine de Mattos and Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson.
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Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "R. L. S."

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Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."

3413Q1512Robert Louis StevensonRobert LouisStevensonRobert Louis StevensonScottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror; cousin of Katharine de Mattos and Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson.
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "R. L. S."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."

• Treasure Island (1883)
• Prince Otto (1885) (transcription project)
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
  • The Annotated Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Wikisource community annotation project.
• Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (1886)
• The Black Arrow (1888)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1889) (transcription project)
• Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour, 1893) (transcription project)
• Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished)
• St. Ives (1898), a novel unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
  • St Ives (1909), completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrated by George Grenville Manton (transcription project)

• The Wrong Box (1889) (transcription project)
• The Wrecker (1892) (transcription project)
• The Ebb-Tide (1894) (transcription project)

• A Lodging for the Night (1877)
• The Sire de Maletroit's Door (1878)
• Will o' the Mill (1878)
• "The Story of a Lie" in Littell's Living Age, 143 (1848) (1879)
• The Pavilion on the Links (1880)
  • Also in The Lock and Key Library, Volume 8, edited by Julian Hawthorne
• Thrawn Janet (1881)
• The Merry Men (1882)
• The Treasure of Franchard (1883)
• Markheim (1885)
• Olalla (1885)
• The Bottle Imp (1891)
• The Beach of Falesá (1892)
• The Isle of Voices (1893)
• The Scientific Ape (2005)
• The Clockmaker (2005)

• New Arabian Nights (1895) (transcription project)
• More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (external scan)
• The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
  • The Merry Men—Will o' the Mill—Markheim—Thrawn Janet—Olalla—The Treasure of Franchard
• Fables (1896)
• Island nights' entertainments illustrated by Gordon Brown and W. Hatherell. New York: Scribner. 1901.
• Tales and Fantasies (1905)
  • The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story—The Body Snatcher—The Story of a Lie

• An Inland Voyage (1878) (transcription project)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
  • A Mountain Town in France - original opening chapter of Travels (1896)
  • The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes' - Wikisource community annotation project.
• The Silverado Squatters (1883)
• Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892)
• The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
• In the South Seas (1896)
• Essays of Travel (1905)
• Edinburgh (1914)

The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles.

• Moral Emblems (1882) illus. by the author, with preface by Lloyd Osbourne
• A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
• Underwoods (1887)

"Not yet, my soul"

• Ballads (1890)
• Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
• New poems and variant readings (1918)
• Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished (1916, 2 vols; 1921)
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima ed.) Volume 8 (1922) (transcription project) Contains nearly forty additional "new poems" not found in above collections.

• Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881) (transcription project)
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) (transcription project)
• Memories and Portraits (1887)
  • "Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer" in Littell's Living Age, 174 (2245) (1887)
• Essays in the Art of Writing (1905)
• Books Which Influenced Me (1887). Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1913

• Vailima Letters (1895) (transcription project)
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 1
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2

• The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson (1907) with William Ernest Henley
  • Deacon Brodie
  • Beau Austin
  • Admiral Guinea
  • Robert Macaire

• "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)

• "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

• Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887) Originally appeared in Papers, literary, scientific, & c. by Fleeming Jenkin (1887) (transcription project)
• Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu (1890)
• Records of a Family of Engineers (1896)
• A Footnote to History: Eight years of trouble in Samoa (1892) (transcription project) (Charles Scribners Son's, 1901)
• Prayers Written at Vailima (1904)
• Lay Morals and Other Papers (1911) with a preface by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1895), a biography by Walter Alexander Raleigh
• The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Thomas Graham Balfour (1916) IA
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1927) (transcription project) a biography by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• "Stevenson, Robert Louis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Stevenson, Robert Louis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour," by Edmund Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

• "Robert Louis Stevenson" in Studies of a Biographer, vol 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen
• Robert Louis Stevenson: the dramatist (1903) by Arthur Wing Pinero
• "R. L. S. Encounters the "Modern" Writers on Their Own Ground" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman

• Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number 1913 (transcription project)
• "The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa", by Florence Earle Coates
• "The Difference", by Florence Earle Coates
• "Stevenson's Birthday" by Katherine Miller

• Robert Louis Stevenson: a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial (1905) by Alexander Hay Japp

• "Stevenson; Necrologe (22nd Dec. 1894)" Joseph Jacobs, Literary Studies.
• "Treasure Island," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• Introduction (1909) to Treasure Island by Franklin Thomas Baker
• "Kidnapped," by Arthur Guiterman in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)