Robert Louis Stevenson
One of Edinburgh’s most famous literary sons, Robert Lewis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. He was a poorly child, and ill-health plagued him throughout his life. Stevenson came from a line of famous engineers – both his father and grandfather were successful lighthouse engineers [c.f. Belle Bathurst’s The Lighthouse Stevensons].
At eighteen, he shortened his name, and changed the spelling of Lewis. Stevenson studied engineering at university, but switched to law. Then, at twenty-one, he declared his intention to become a writer. Both his father Thomas and his Nanny Alison Cunningham [‘Cummy’] read to him frequently, particularly religious stories from the Bible and from the Covenanters. His knowledge of Scottish history influenced novels such as Kidnapped (chosen by Edinburgh City of Literature as their first One City, One Book title) and The Master of Ballantrae. RLS married American divorcee Fanny Osbourne (a controversial choice) in 1880.
Believing the the healing powers of a better climate than that of Scotland, Stevenson and his family travelled widely, living in Switzerland, France and Hawaii. It was during his time that he had some of his biggest successes. Treasure Island is an exciting tale of adventure, piracy and travel (themes he would return to often), while The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a haunting psychological tale. He also wrote travel books, such as Travels with a donkey in the Cévennes and In the South Seas.
Stevenson finally settled in Samoa in 1892, where the local tribe named him Tusitala – ‘storyteller’ – but died in 1884 of a brain haemorrhage.
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BOOKS BY Robert Louis Stevenson
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Penguin Readers Level 1: Treasure Island
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Jekyll and Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson Collection
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Classic Starts®: Treasure Island
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Kidnapped and Catriona: A BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisation
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Kidnapped
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Treasure Island: or ?he Most Piratefull of All Pirate Stories
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Ebb-Tide
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Treasure Island: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic
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Treasure Island: A Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classic
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Kidnapped
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Penguin Readers Level 1: Jekyll and Hyde (ELT Graded Reader)
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Tales
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The Black Arrow
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Catriona
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Kidnapped
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Treasure Island
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Shorter Scottish Fiction
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Kidnapped
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Classics Reimagined, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island: V&A Collectors Edition
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: And Other Dark Tales
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A Child’s Garden of Verse
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: And Other Stories
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories
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Foxton Readers: Treasure Island: Graded ESL / EAL / ELT Readers: Level 2: 600 Headwords
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Oxford Children’s Classics: Kidnapped
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Kidnapped: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
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Kidnapped
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In the South Seas
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Treasure Island
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Kidnapped
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Treasure Island
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 3: Kidnapped
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped: Retold by John Kennett
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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A Child’s Garden Of Verses
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Oxford Children’s Classics: Treasure Island
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The Cevennes Journal: Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands
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The Cevennes Journal: Notes on a Journey Through the French Highlands
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: And Other Dark Tales
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The Black Arrow
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Treasure island
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Treasure Island
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Kidnapped & Catriona
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The Master of Ballantrae and Weir of Hermiston
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Treasure Island & Kidnapped
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Prince Otto
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Kidnapped
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Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped
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Kidnapped
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Classics Illustrated: No. 16: Kidnapped
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Famous Classics for Boys: Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island and Kidnapped
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The Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics Collection
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Records of a Family of Engineers
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Jekyll and Hyde
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Rollercoasters: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Reader
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Treasure Island
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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The Travels of Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped
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Michael Foreman’s Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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An Apology for Idlers
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Treasure Island
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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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The Story of a Lie
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The Master of Ballantrae: and Weir of Hermiston: WITH Weir of Hermiston
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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The Master of Ballantrae
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South Sea Tales
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Graphic Novel in Full Colour
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Level 3
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Treasure Island: Unabridged
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: 1400 Headwords
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Treasure Island: 1400 Headwords
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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The Black Arrow
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Kidnapped
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Kidnapped: AND Catriona
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The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
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Kidnapped
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Treasure Island
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Kidnapped: A Graphic Novel in Full Colour
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Treasure Island: Introduced by Darren Shan
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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Island Nights’ Entertainments
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Dreams of Elsewhere: Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: AND the Amateur Emigrant
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
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Treasure Island
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Treasure Island
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Performance Adaptations, Criticism
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Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Poems for Children
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Treasure Island
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In the South Seas
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The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter’s Tale
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Markheim, Jekyll and the Merry Men: Shorter Scottish Fiction
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Treasure Island
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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Kidnapped & Catriona
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Treasure Island
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The Black Arrow
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A Child’s Garden of Verses
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In the South Seas: Marquesas, Paumatus and Gilbert Islands
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