Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer famous for his novels of adventure, romance, and horror. The icon ![]() This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "R. L. S." |
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Works[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Treasure Island (1883)
- Prince Otto
(1885)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(1886)
- The Annotated Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Wikisource community annotation project.
- Kidnapped (Adventures of David Balfour, 1886)
- The Black Arrow (1888)
- The Master of Ballantrae (1889) (External scan)
- Catriona (Adventures of David Balfour, 1893)
- Weir of Hermiston
(1896, unfinished)
- St. Ives
(1898, unfinished)
- St. Ives (Stevenson and Quiller-Couch)
, Illustrated (1909), Completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch
- St. Ives (Stevenson and Quiller-Couch)
with Lloyd Osbourne[edit]
- The Wrong Box (1889) (External scan)
- The Wrecker (Stevenson)
(1892)
- The Ebb-Tide (1894) (External scan)
Short stories[edit]
- 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)
Short story collections[edit]
- New Arabian Nights
(1882)
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (External scan)
- The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
(1887)
- Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales, 1893) (External scan)
- Fables (1896)
Travel writing[edit]
- An Inland Voyage
(1878)
- 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.
- A Mountain Town in France
- The Silverado Squatters (1883)
- Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays
(1892)
- The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
- In the South Seas (1896)
Poems[edit]
The following are published works of poetry. For individual poems, see Index of Titles.
Collections[edit]
- A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
- Underwoods (1887)
- 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.
Essays[edit]
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers
(1881)
- 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)
Letters[edit]
- Vailima Letters (1895) (External scan)
- The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 1
- The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2
Other[edit]
- “Béranger, Pierre Jean de”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911 (1875)
- 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)
- Edinburgh (1914)
Works about Stevenson[edit]
- “Stevenson, Robert Louis,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- “Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia 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
- By Florence Earle Coates: "The Difference", "The Burial of Robert Louis Stevenson at Samoa".
- "Robert Louis Stevenson" in Studies of a Biographer, vol 4 (1902) by Leslie Stephen
On his works[edit]
- Introduction (1909) to Treasure Island by Franklin Thomas Baker
- “Kidnapped,” by Arthur Guiterman in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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