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Robert Louis Stevenson

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

November 13, 1850

Died

December 03, 1894

Website

http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Horror

Influences

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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. ...more

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,647,297 ratings · 74,086 reviews · 6,982 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 668,461 ratings — published 1886 — 8683 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasure Island 3.85 avg rating — 542,374 ratings — published 1882 — 179 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 3.91 avg rating — 145,916 ratings — published 1886 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 68,162 ratings — published 1886 — 646 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenny Davidson (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36,272 ratings — published 1886 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Child's Garden of Verses 4.27 avg rating — 26,866 ratings — published 1885 — 2458 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Arrow 3.79 avg rating — 19,918 ratings — published 1883 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bottle Imp 3.70 avg rating — 8,571 ratings — published 1891 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suicide Club (Prince Florizel, #1) 3.40 avg rating — 7,123 ratings — published 1878 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Ballantrae 3.70 avg rating — 6,518 ratings — published 1889 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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November 2014 Revisit the Shelf Classics Poll

1860, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages

20 votes, 15.5%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 238 pages

16 votes, 12.4%

1962, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 160 pages

15 votes, 11.6%

1866, Crime and Punishment byFyodor Dostoyevsky, 545 pages

12 votes, 9.3%

1883, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

10 votes, 7.8%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages

9 votes, 7.0%

1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 108 pages

8 votes, 6.2%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages

7 votes, 5.4%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

1981, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 314 pages

6 votes, 4.7%

129 total votes

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