Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. At an early age he had begun to write, and gradually he devoted himself to literature.… His first popular books were Treasure Island (1883), a swashbuckling adventure story of a search for Captain Kidd’s buried treasure, and the fantasy Prince Otto (1885). A Child’s Garden of Verses appeared in 1885, followed in 1886 by two of his best-known works: Kidnapped, an adventure tale noted for its Scottish setting, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a science-fiction thriller with moral overtones.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: st from The American Heritage®
WORKS
A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods , with Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey. 1913.
Two of Stevenson’s best-loved verse collections comprising 121 poems, some in Scots.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . 1886.
The nightmare-inspired “bogey tale.”
The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale . 1889.
A romance set in Stevenson’s native Scotland.
Bartlett’s Stevenson Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 56463 to 56533
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
ANTHOLOGIZED VERSE
In the Highlands (OBEV); Requiem (MBP); Requiem (OBEV); Romance (MBP); Romance (OBEV); Summer Sun (MBP); Winter-Time (MBP)
WRITINGS ABOUT STEVENSON
“R. L. Stevenson ”
Article by Hugh Walker from the Cambridge History of American Literature
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