Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case ...
If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...
Wall Street Journal: ‘A Wilder Shore’ Review: Robert Louis Stevenson’s American Wife
The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...
Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...
It's fitting that the promising debut from a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson concerns a sunken treasure--in this case, a billion dollars in gold in the decaying hull of a cruiser torpedoed in ...
The Scotsman: Robert Louis Stevenson by Glenda Norquay review: 'full of sharp details'
The Washington Post: Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the Oxford Companion to ...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent