Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850–1894)

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Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror; cousin of Katharine de Mattos and Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson.
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3413Q1512Robert Louis StevensonRobert LouisStevensonRobert Louis StevensonScottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror; cousin of Katharine de Mattos and Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson.
one or more chapters are available in a spoken word format.

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This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB9 by the initials "R. L. S."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Articles written by this author are designated in the EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S."

• Treasure Island (1883)
• Prince Otto (1885) (transcription project)
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
  • The Annotated Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Wikisource community annotation project.
• Kidnapped: being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 (1886)
• The Black Arrow (1888)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1889) (transcription project)
• Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour, 1893) (transcription project)
• Weir of Hermiston (1896, unfinished)
• St. Ives (1898), a novel unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
  • St Ives (1909), completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrated by George Grenville Manton (transcription project)

• The Wrong Box (1889) (transcription project)
• The Wrecker (1892) (transcription project)
• The Ebb-Tide (1894) (transcription project)

• A Lodging for the Night (1877)
• The Sire de Maletroit's Door (1878)
• Will o' the Mill (1878)
• "The Story of a Lie" in Littell's Living Age, 143 (1848) (1879)
• The Pavilion on the Links (1880)
• Thrawn Janet (1881)
• The Merry Men (1882)
• The Treasure of Franchard (1883)
• Markheim (1885)
• Olalla (1885)
• The Bottle Imp (1891)
• The Beach of Falesá (1892)
• The Isle of Voices (1893)
• The Scientific Ape (2005)
• The Clockmaker (2005)

• New Arabian Nights (1895) (transcription project)
• More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (external scan)
• The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
  • The Merry Men—Will o' the Mill—Markheim—Thrawn Janet—Olalla—The Treasure of Franchard
• Island nights' entertainments illustrated by Gordon Brown and W. Hatherell. New York: Scribner. 1901.
• Fables (1896)

• An Inland Voyage (1878) (transcription project)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
  • A Mountain Town in France - original opening chapter of Travels (1896)
  • The Annotated 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes' - Wikisource community annotation project.
• The Silverado Squatters (1883)
• Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892)
• The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
• In the South Seas (1896)
• Edinburgh (1914)

The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles.

• A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
• Underwoods (1887)

"Not yet, my soul"

• Ballads (1890)
• Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
• New poems and variant readings (1918)
• Poems, by Robert Louis Stevenson, hitherto unpublished (1916, 2 vols; 1921)
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Vailima ed.) Volume 8 (1922) (transcription project) Contains nearly forty additional "new poems" not found in above collections.

• Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881) (transcription project)
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) (transcription project)
• Memories and Portraits (1887)
  • "Thomas Stevenson, Civil Engineer" in Littell's Living Age, 174 (2245) (1887)
• Essays in the Art of Writing (1905)
• Books Which Influenced Me (1887). Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1913

• Vailima Letters (1895) (transcription project)
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 1
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2

• "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 3) (1878)

• "Béranger, Pierre Jean de," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

• Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1887) Originally appeared in Papers, literary, scientific, & c. by Fleeming Jenkin (1887) (transcription project)
• Records of a Family of Engineers (1896)
• A Footnote to History: Eight years of trouble in Samoa (1892) (transcription project) (Charles Scribners Son's, 1901)

• "R. L. S. Encounters the "Modern" Writers on Their Own Ground" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• "Stevenson, Robert Louis," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Stevenson, Robert Louis," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour," by Edmund Gosse in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa", by Florence Earle Coates
• "The Difference", by Florence Earle Coates
• "Stevenson; Necrologe (22nd Dec. 1894)" Joseph Jacobs, Literary Studies. 1896
• "Robert Louis Stevenson" in Studies of a Biographer, vol 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen
• "Stevenson's Birthday" by Katherine Miller
• The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Thomas Graham Balfour (1916) IA
• Robert Louis Stevenson: the dramatist (1903) by Arthur Wing Pinero
• Robert Louis Stevenson; a Bookman extra number 1913 (transcription project)

• "Treasure Island," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• Introduction (1909) to Treasure Island by Franklin Thomas Baker
• "Kidnapped," by Arthur Guiterman in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)