Robert louis stevenson awards

Books

• The Pentland Rising (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1866).
• An Appeal to the Clergy (Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1875).
• An Inland Voyage (London: Kegan Paul, 1878; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883).
• Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, with Etchings (London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1879; New York: Macmillan, 1889).
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (London: Kegan Paul, 1879; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879).
• Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: Kegan Paul, 1881; New York: Collier, 1881).
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1887).
• New Arabian Nights (2 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1882; 1 volume, New York: Holt, 1882).
• The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883; New York: Munro, 1884).
• Treasure Island (London: Cassell, 1883; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884).
• A Child's Garden of Verses (London: Longmans, Green, 1885; New York: Scribners, 1885).
• More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, by Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenso
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  Robert Louis Stevenson

  For other people named Robert Stevenson, see Robert Stevenson (disambiguation).

  Scottish novelist and poet (1850–1894)

  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.

  Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse,^[1]Leslie Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned from romance and adventure fiction toward a darker rea

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  Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived from 13 November 1850 to 3 December 1894, was a renowned essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books. He is best known for his adventure novels like Treasure Island (1883)and Kidnapped (1886), though many view his most important and influential work to have been The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.

  Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1850. His father was Thomas Stevenson his grandfather Robert Stevenson, both members of the "Lighthouse Stevensons" the family who between them were responsible for building most of Scotland's lighthouses (and many more beyond these shores).

  As a child, Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. At the age of 18 he dropped "Balfour" from his name and changed the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis". From about the same time he began to refer to himself as RLS.

  Despite the fragility of his health, RLS's family hoped that he would