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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Works

Novels

• 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) illus. William Brassey Hole
• 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

with Lloyd Osbourne

• The Wrong Box (1889) (external scan)
• The Wrecker (Stevenson) (1892)
• The Ebb-Tide (1894) (external scan)

Short stories

• 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

• 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)
  • The Merry Men—Will o' the Mill—Markheim—Thrawn Janet—Olalla—The Treasure of Franchard
• Island Nights' Entertainments (South Sea Tales, 1893) (external scan)
  • The Beach of Falesá—The Bottle Imp—The Isle of Voices
• Fables (1896)

Travel writing

• 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.
• The Silverado Squatters (1883)
• Across the Plains with Other Memories and Essays (1892)
• The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
• In the South Seas (1896)

Poems

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

Collections

• 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.

Essays

• 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

• Vailima Letters (1895) (external scan)
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 1
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson Volume 2

Other

• "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)
• A Footnote to History: Eight years of trouble in Samoa (1892) (transcription project) (Charles Scribners Son's, 1901)

Works about Stevenson

• "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, (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)

• 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

• "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)