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1. www.biography.com › robert-louis-stevensonRobert Louis Stevenson - Books, Quotes & Death - Biography

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   Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th-century Scottish writer of adventure novels such as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Find out how his travels, health and family influenced his fiction and his legacy.

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   Apr 9, 2024 · Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). Stevenson’s biography of Pierre-Jean de Béranger.

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   • What was Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood like?

     Robert Louis Stevenson was the only son of Thomas Stevenson, a prosperous civil engineer, and his wife, Margaret Isabella Balfour. In his teens he...
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     Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to join the family profession of lighthouse engineering but had no desire to be an engineer. He eventually agre...
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     In 1876 Robert Louis Stevenson met and fell in love with Fanny Osbourne, an American separated from her husband. She returned to California in 1878...

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   Robert Edward Stevenson (31 March 1905 – 30 April 1986) was a British-American screenwriter and film director. After directing a number of British films, including King Solomon's Mines (1937), he was contracted by David O. Selznick and moved to Hollywood, but was loaned to other studios, directing Jane Eyre (1943).

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   Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island , Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde , Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses .

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   Learn about the life and works of Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish writer of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and more. Explore his childhood, education, travels, marriages, and death in this brief summary.

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   Explore the classics by the Scottish author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Learn about his life, inspiration, and themes through his writings and illustrations.

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   Robert Louis Stevenson - Novelist, Romanticism, Adventure | Britannica. Home Literature Novels & Short Stories Novelists L-Z. Romantic novels of Robert Louis Stevenson. Robert Louis Stevenson, 1880.

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    What is Robert Louis Stevenson best known for?

    • Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer; but he is probably best known for the classics Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Treasure Island is one of the most famous adventure stories in English literature.

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    What books did Robert Louis Stevenson write?

    • Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). Stevenson’s biography of Pierre-Jean de Béranger

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    Where did Robert Louis Stevenson live?

    • Robert Louis Stevenson, 1880. Soon after his return, Stevenson, accompanied by his wife and his stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, went, on medical advice (he had tuberculosis), to Davos, Switzerland. The family left there in April 1881 and spent the summer in Pitlochry and then in Braemar, Scotland.

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    Why did Robert Louis Stevenson travel?

    • Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson traveled often, and his global wanderings lent themselves well to his brand of fiction. Stevenson developed a desire to write early in life, having no interest in the family business of lighthouse engineering. He was often abroad, usually for health reasons, and his journeys led to some of his early literary works.

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