Robert Louis Stevenson

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born

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

died

December 03, 1894

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Travel

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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 avg rating — 53,632 ratings — published 1881 — 927 editions	My rating:
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.65 avg rating — 38,642 ratings — published 1886 — 695 editions	My rating:
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Noted by) 3.78 avg rating — 11,943 ratings — published 1886 — 86 editions	My rating:
	Kidnapped 3.63 avg rating — 9,364 ratings — published 1886 — 319 editions	My rating:
	A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tasha Tudor (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 3,900 ratings — published 1885 — 195 editions	My rating:
	The Black Arrow 3.74 avg rating — 2,042 ratings — published 1883 — 146 editions	My rating:
	The Master Of Ballantrae 3.60 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 1889 — 104 editions	My rating:
	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Weir of Hermiston 3.62 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1886 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Suicide Club 3.60 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1878 — 23 editions	My rating:
	Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Adapter), A.J. McAllister (Illustrator), Robert Louis Stevenson 3.86 avg rating — 347 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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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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“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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“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.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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