New York: Gilberton Company, 1949. — 104 p. Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots...
Connecticut: Academic Industried Inc, 1984. — 61 p. — ISBN: 0-88302-710-5 Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an “X,” schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and...
An Inland Voyage (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature. As a young man, Stevenson desired to be financially independent so that he might pursue the woman he loved, and set about funding his freedom from parental support by writing...
1901 Edition Pining for a stiff dose of adventure? This collection of short tales from Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson is sure to quell your cravings. Robert Louis Stevenson’s Fables was published in New York by Longmans, Green in 1902. Previously, the thirteen fables had been published with other works. Stevenson had a long-standing fascination with the fable as a...
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson examines the techniques of writing, and gives insights into the writing of ""Treasure Island"" and ""The Master of Ballantrae."" On Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature, The Morality of the Profession of Letters, Books Which Have Influenced Me, A note On Realism, My First Book: ""Treasure Island,"" The Genesis of...
Knopf, 2012. A collection of poems by a remarkable writer. The collection first appeared in 1885. 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. It contains about 65 poems...
Knopf, 2012. A collection of poems by a remarkable writer. The collection first appeared in 1885. 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. It contains about 65 poems...
Knopf, 2012. A collection of poems by a remarkable writer. The collection first appeared in 1885. 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. It contains about 65 poems...
"A Footnote to History" is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevenson describing the contemporary Samoan Civil War. Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 and built a house at Vailima. He quickly became passionately interested, and involved, in the attendant political machinations. These involved the three colonial powers battling for control of...
"Across the Plains" (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with "The Amateur Emigrant" and ended with "The Silverado Squatters". The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections. It describes Stevenson's arrival at New York as an...
"An Inland Voyage" (1878) is a travelogue by Robert Louis Stevenson about a canoeing trip through France and Belgium in 1876. It is Stevenson's earliest book and a pioneering work of outdoor literature. As a young man, Stevenson desired to be financially independent so that he might pursue the woman he loved, and set about funding his freedom from parental support by writing...
The Floating Press, 2008. - 81 p. The book contains Stevenson's ballads: The Song Of Rahero The Feast Of Famine Ticonderoga Heather Ale Christmas At Sea
"Catriona" (also known as "David Balfour") is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel "Kidnapped" (1886). It tells the further story of the central character, David Balfour. The book begins precisely where "Kidnapped" ends, at 2 PM on 25 August 1751, outside the British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland. The first part of the book...
One of Scotland's most celebrated storytellers, Stevenson deserves a place in everyone's digital library. this is the definitive Kindle Edition of the great author’s works, with every published novel, short story, play, poem, letter, essay and piece of travel writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Why buy any other Stevenson eBook when you can have them All in one? Features...
One of Scotland's most celebrated storytellers, Stevenson deserves a place in everyone's digital library. this is the definitive Kindle Edition of the great author’s works, with every published novel, short story, play, poem, letter, essay and piece of travel writing written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Why buy any other Stevenson eBook when you can have them All in one? Features...
"Familiar Studies of Men and Books" (1882) provided a kind of companion-piece to Virginibus Puerisque, reprinting the more literary and critical essays left out of the first collection. In his Preface, RLS describes the contents as “the readings of a literary vagrant”. The volume contains nine essays: seven essays previously appearing in the "Cornhill Magazine" (“Victor Hugo’s...
1886 299 p. ‘Why, very well said,’ replied Mr. Campbell, heartily. ‘And now to come to the material, or (to make a quibble) to the immaterial. I have here a little packet which contains four things.’ He tugged it, as he spoke, and with some great difficulty, from the skirt pocket of his coat. ‘Of these four things, the first is your legal due: the little pickle money for your...
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 short story tradition. The Suicide...
Prince Otto of Grunewald is widely regarded by his people as an incompetent fool, incapable of ruling the kingdom. One night, Otto conceals his true identity and stays with the farmer Killian and his family. Not knowing Otto is the prince, the family discuss how much they despise him. Learning that they risk eviction, Otto vows to buy the farm and give Killian the lease. Otto...
Stevenson was working on (what would be posthumously called) “Records of a Family of Engineers” from the early 1890s until his death. This unfinished piece focuses on RLS’s grandfather, Robert Stevenson (1772-1850). “Records” is a discussion of the Stevenson family history and their achievements in lighthouse engineering. For more information about the Stevenson lighthouses,...
"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 book plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Viscomte Anne de Keroual de St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier enlisted as a private under the name Champdivers, after his capture by the British.
Tales and Fantasies" is a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. The stories are collection of adventures of a character named John Nicholson. The Misadventures of John Nicholson The Body-Snatcher The Story of a Lie
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.
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.
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. He worked on the book in Tautira after his health was restored. The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer...
The Merry Men" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1882 in Cornhill Magazine 45-6 (June–July 1882). The story was later published in Stevenson's collection "The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" (1887). It is set on the fictional island Eilean Aros, based on the Isle of Erraid. The narrator, Charles Darnaway, a recent graduate of Edinburgh...
"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 1880. In July 1879, Stevenson received word that his future American wife's divorce was almost complete, but that she was seriously ill. He left Scotland right away and travelled to meet her...
Robert Louis Stevenson.1886. 96 p. MR. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which...
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886. There is no "The" in the title. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who...
Have you ever wished to be someone else? Have you ever looked at someone you know and thought, 'He does what he wants. Why shouldn't I do what I want? ' And have you then thought that if you looked like someone else, only for a day, you would be free to do anything you wanted? And nobody could blame you for it. Nobody would ever know that it was you, because it wasn't you! How...
Have you ever wished to be someone else? Have you ever looked at someone you know and thought, 'He does what he wants. Why shouldn't I do what I want? ' And have you then thought that if you looked like someone else, only for a day, you would be free to do anything you wanted? And nobody could blame you for it. Nobody would ever know that it was you, because it wasn't you! How...
This is a tale of Iceland, the isle of stories, and of a thing that befell in the year of the coming there of Christianity.’ "The Waif Woman" is a short story suppressed by Stevenson and published twenty years after his death. Many editors prefer not to include this story in their selections because "The Waif Woman" is unfinished.
"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. His journey was designed to provide material for publication while allowing him to distance himself from a love affair with an...
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson with illustrations: Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1884. — 285 p. It is is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
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