Robert Louis Stevenson





Robert Louis Stevenson

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

died
December 03, 1894

gender
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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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Treasure Island
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 53,632 ratings — published 1881 — 927 editions
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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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.”
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“So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
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