Robert L. Stevenson

1850 - 1894 *

author of fiction works that have become legendary in children's literature.

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson spent much of his life travelling to find a location that would ease his chronic bronchial illness, and, in doing so, was inspired to write about places and characters that have become legendary in children's literature.

Stevenson's works of fiction made him a celebrity throughout the Western world, and these stories have almost all been in publication since. They explore the relationship between sin and evil, and the potential for moral corruption to exist below the superficialities of society.

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Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. Characteristic for Stevenson's novels is skillful use of horror and supernatural elements. Often his stories are set in colorful locations, where his characters can forget the restrictions of Victorian social manners. Arguing against realism, Stevenson underlined the "nameless longings of the reader", the desire for experience.

"But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the lon... [read entire biography]

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Jekyll and Hyde: The Authentic Self -- The dual personalities of Jekyll and Hyde act as a foil to each other while still existing as part of the same individual
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Miscellaneous

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Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask: the heaven above
And the road below me. -- The Vagabond.

Robert Louis Stevenson

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day. -- Bed in Summer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The pleasant Land of Counterpane. -- The Land of Counterpane.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth now flees on feathered foot. -- To Will H. Low.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things,
I 'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. -- Couplet.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live, and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.


This be the verse you grave for me:
"Here he lies, where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill." -- Requiem (and Epitaph).

Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. -- Virginibus Puerisque.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young we are all on our last cruise. -- Crabbed Age and Youth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. -- Crabbed Age and Youth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is wholly experimental. -- A Letter to a young Gentleman.

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Additional searches

Stevenson at Encarta Encyclopedia

Stevenson at Britannica Encyclopedia

Stevenson at Xrefer.com