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Robert Louis Stevenson


Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
November 13, 1850

Died
December 03, 1894

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of 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.
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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson  (?)
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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

“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 Cévennes

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
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June 2024 Old School Classics Poll

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1838, 608 pages
 
  61 votes, 24.2%

As You Like It by William Shakespeare, 1599, 263 pages
 
  59 votes, 23.4%

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, 1907, 304 pages
 
  39 votes, 15.5%

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, `400 BCE, 107 pages
 
  30 votes, 11.9%

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886, 288 pages
 
  28 votes, 11.1%

 
  18 votes, 7.1%

The Man of Property by John Galsworthy, 1906, 364 pages
 
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