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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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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."
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identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB9 by the initials "R. L. S."
This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Works
Novels
- 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)
with Lloyd Osbourne
- The Wrong Box (1889) (transcription project)
- The Wrecker (1892) (transcription project)
- The Ebb-Tide (1894) (transcription project)
Short stories
- 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)
- 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)
Short story collections
- New Arabian Nights (1882)
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (external scan)
- The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
- Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales, 1893) The Beach of Falesá—The Bottle Imp—The Isle of Voices
- Island Nights' Entertainments [user transcript]
- Island nights' entertainments illustrated by Gordon Brown and W. Hatherell. New York: Scribner. 1901.
- Fables (1896)
Travel writing
- An Inland Voyage (1878)
- 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.
- A Mountain Town in France
- The Silverado Squatters (1883)
- Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892)
- The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
- In the South Seas (1896)
- Edinburgh (1914)
Poems
The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles.
Collections
- A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
- Underwoods (1887)
- 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.
Essays
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881) (start transcription)
- 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
Letters
Contributions to EB9
- "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (3) (1878)
Contributions to EB1911
- "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Other
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887) Originally appeared in Papers, literary, scientific, & c. by Fleeming Jenkin (1887) (transcription project)
- 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)
Works about Stevenson
- "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)
- "The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa", by Florence Earle Coates
- "The Difference", by Florence Earle Coates
- "Stevenson; Necrologe (22nd Dec. 1894)" Joseph Jacobs, Literary Studies. 1896
- "Robert Louis Stevenson" in Studies of a Biographer, vol 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen
- "Stevenson's Birthday" by Katherine Miller
- The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Thomas Graham Balfour (1916) IA
- Robert Louis Stevenson: the dramatist (1903) by Arthur Wing Pinero
- Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number 1913 (transcription project)
On his works
- "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)
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