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Robert Louis Stevenson

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom

November 13, 1850

Died

December 03, 1894

Website

http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Travel

Influences

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.

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Robert Louis Stevenson's Books

Average rating: 3.83 · 774,732 ratings · 21,964 reviews · 1,473 distinct works · Similar authors

	Treasure Island 3.82 avg rating — 300,719 ratings — published 1882 — 541 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov (Introduction), Mervyn Peake (Illustrator), Dan Chaon (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.79 avg rating — 246,479 ratings — published 1886 — 1852 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 76,390 ratings — published 1886 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 47,044 ratings — published 1886 — 130 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, Tasha Tudor (Illustrator) 4.30 avg rating — 21,217 ratings — published 1885 — 395 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenny Davidson (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 22,706 ratings — published 1886 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Arrow 3.81 avg rating — 13,268 ratings — published 1888 — 422 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Ballantrae 3.72 avg rating — 4,398 ratings — published 1889 — 262 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, François Place (Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 2,154 ratings — published 1886 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suicide Club 3.51 avg rating — 2,461 ratings — published 1878 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Balfour (2 books)
by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth (Illustrator)
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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

5040 likes

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2784 likes

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: books, inspirational, on-writing, reading

2732 likes

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Polls

March 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 228 pages, 1850

53 votes, 15.1%

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 180 pages, 1925

52 votes, 14.8%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965

40 votes, 11.4%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

30 votes, 8.5%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages, 1902

27 votes, 7.7%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

23 votes, 6.6%

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, 1929

22 votes, 6.3%

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 154 pages, 1900

21 votes, 6.0%

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 176 pages, 1911

20 votes, 5.7%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages, 1862

16 votes, 4.6%

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 360 pages, 1909

15 votes, 4.3%

The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages, 1978

15 votes, 4.3%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 382 pages, 1603

14 votes, 4.0%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

3 votes, 0.9%

351 total votes

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