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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

Daniel Defoe, Walter Scott, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, J.M.Barr ...more

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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 · 1,393,047 ratings · 54,660 reviews · 10,871 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 542,719 ratings — published 1886 — 3734 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 3.84 avg rating — 473,343 ratings — published 1882 — 11714 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 3.93 avg rating — 126,193 ratings — published 1886 — 200 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 — 63,349 ratings — published 1886 — 5555 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) 4.01 avg rating — 35,005 ratings — published 1886 — 20 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 4.28 avg rating — 26,223 ratings — published 1885 — 3061 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 3.80 avg rating — 18,376 ratings — published 1883 — 3064 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 — 6,787 ratings — published 1891 — 211 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 3.71 avg rating — 6,044 ratings — published 1889 — 354 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 3.44 avg rating — 5,518 ratings — published 1878 — 233 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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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980

31 votes, 13.9%

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

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4 votes, 1.8%

223 total votes

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