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Robert Louis Stevenson

Author profile


born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom
November 13, 1850

died
December 03, 1894

gender
male

website

genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel


About this author

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.

On December 3rd, 1894, he died of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 44.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Books

Average rating: 3.78 · 314,686 ratings · 9,750 reviews · 845 distinct works · Similar authors
Treasure Island
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 130,637 ratings — published 1883 — 1107 editions
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jek...
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 87,794 ratings — published 1886 — 852 editions
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jek...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 42,226 ratings — published 1886 — 102 editions
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Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 21,815 ratings — published 1886 — 446 editions
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A Child's Garden of Verses
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 10,725 ratings — published 1885 — 204 editions
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The Black Arrow
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 5,701 ratings — published 1888 — 180 editions
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The Master Of Ballantrae
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,925 ratings — published 1889 — 98 editions
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The Suicide Club
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 957 ratings — published 1878 — 26 editions
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The Strange Case of Dr Jeky...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 829 ratings — published 1886 — 2 editions
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The Bottle Imp
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1891 — 45 editions
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Kidnapped David Balfour
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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
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