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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Books by Robert Louis Stevenson

Average rating: 3.73 · 165,036 ratings · 6,718 reviews · 521 distinct works

	Treasure Island 3.73 avg rating — 69,357 ratings — published 1881 — 890 editions	My rating:
	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.66 avg rating — 47,802 ratings — published 1886 — 723 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) 3.81 avg rating — 18,768 ratings — published 1886 — 91 editions	My rating:
	Kidnapped 3.67 avg rating — 12,257 ratings — published 1886 — 329 editions	My rating:
	A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tasha Tudor (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 5,472 ratings — published 1885 — 200 editions	My rating:
	The Black Arrow 3.76 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 1883 — 150 editions	My rating:
	The Master Of Ballantrae 3.61 avg rating — 1,050 ratings — published 1889 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Weir of Hermiston 3.62 avg rating — 554 ratings — published 1886 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dover Thrift Editions 3.62 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 1878 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Body Snatcher 3.41 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1884 — 18 editions	My rating:

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David Balfour (2 books)
by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth (Illustrator)

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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

tags: friend , honesty

555 people liked it

“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

tags: friendship , love , service

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