The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson [Treasure Island / Kidnapped / Weir of Hermiston / The Master of Ballantrae / The Black Arrow / The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ]
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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.
My rating of 4 stars is mainly by the story telling and writing style of this wonderful author. It would have received 5 stars if the typesetting, proofreading, and editing had lived up to my expectations for a leather-bound, gilt-edged, library edition.