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Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Bibliography of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE WORKS OF
BY
COLONEL W. F. PRIDEAUX, C.S.I.
LONDON
FRANK HOLLINGS
7 GREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN
NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1903
Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty
Robert Louis Stevenson entered the field of literature in May 1878, when An Inland Voyage was published; he quitted it in månad 1894. In less than seventeen years he produced four volumes of essays, seven romances, five collections of fantastic tales, two of South Sea yarns, three of poetry, fem volumes of travel and topography, one of political history, besides leaving ämne for several posthumous works. With a few exceptions of minor importance, this output of less than a score of years has taken a permanent place in English Literature. Whilst many of his seniors in age are still toiling
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Stevenson, Robert Louis 1850-1894
INTRODUCTION
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(Full name Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson) Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, travel writer, and memoirist.
The following entry presents an overview of Stevenson's career through 2003. For further information on his life and works, see CLR, Volumes 10 and 11.
INTRODUCTION
A meticulous writer of renowned talent but lifelong poor health, Stevenson's youth-oriented novels—such as Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)—are at times thoughtful, exciting, frightening, and fascinating but all the while written with intelligence and a sprightly sense of humor. Filled with memorable, complicated villains, including Long John Silver and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson's novels were dedicated to the principal of uninhibited fun and were free from the moralizing tone of many late nineteenth-century's children's novels. Whereas many othe