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Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850 - 1894)
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur Conan Doyle, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he “seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.”
Bibliography
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)
The account of a twelve days’ hiking expedition in the south of France. Read for free online at HathiTrust. Or at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1967)
The story of a twelve days’ hiking and expedition in the south of France.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Treasure Island (1883)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (1911)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
N. C. Wyeth
Treasure Island (1915)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it.
Read online at Internet Archive.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Treasure Island (1921)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Treasure Island (1948)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it. This is a much abbreviated edition.
Author(s):
Haydn Perry
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
C. Walter Hodges
Treasure Island (1970)
When Jim Hawkins retrieves Flint’s map from the sea chest of the dead Billy Bones, Squire Trelawney and Doctor Livesey catch the treasure fever and outfit a ship to search for it.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Wonderful Things Happen (1958)
An anthology of adventure stories and poems for younger children.