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 of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, 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."
Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to the former Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829–1897) and Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer. Lighthouse design was the family profession: Thomas's own father (Robert's grandfather) was the famous Robert Stevenson, and Thomas's maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, and brothers Alan and David were also among those in the business. On Margaret's side, the family were gentry, tracing their name back to an Alexander Balfour, who held the lands of Inchrye in Fife in the fifteenth century. Her father, Lewis Balfour (1777–1860), was a minister of the Church of Scotland at nearby Colinton, and Stevenson spent the greater part of his boyhood holidays in his house. "Now I often wonder", wrote Stevenson, "what I inherited from this old minister. I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that either of us loved to hear them."
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson Documentary
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TREASURE ISLAND - FULL AudioBook by Robert Louis Stevenson - Adventure / Pirate Fiction
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Part 1 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 1-6)
Part 2 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 7-12)
Part 5 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 22-27)
Plot
Before there was Pirates of the Caribbean, there was Treasure Island. Critics hail it as the most famous pirate story in history. Since its publication over a century ago, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island popularized the most potent symbols of pirate lore: swashbuckling seamen, uncharted tropical islands and dog-eared treasure maps marked with an 'X'. And now, it appears that the novel may have been inspired by a real treasure - on an island no one has ever searched - until now. The Real Treasure Island follows Alex Capus as he travels to exotic locales to unlock the true story behind a literary masterpiece. From the foggy Scottish Highlands to the sun-kissed islands of the South Pacific, Capus follows a treasure trail of clues -each one triggering dramatic recreations that tell the true story behind Stevenson's tale.
Plot
"Into California's 1880 frontier country rides Robert Louis Stevenson ('Edgar Barrier' (qv)), the novelist, looking for story material 'in a land of stage-drivers and highwaymen', and soon finds it when Bill Foss ('William Bishop(I)') arrives in the mining town of Silverado with a new stagecoach." Foss barely breaks the city limits before he is challenged to a race by Zeke Butler ('Forrest Tucker' (qv)) , stage driver for the town's established stage-line operated by Jeannie Manning ('Gloria Henry' (qv)). During the race, Foss's coach is forced off the road and his best team-horse is injured. Doctor Henderson ('Edgar Buchanan' (qv)), noted for his philanthropies to the local miners, advises Foss he can't run his horse for some time to come, and Foss takes a job with Jeannie, hauling water to Squatter's Flats, a desert waste which requires irrigation. Later, Zeke, carrying gold from Last Dog Ditch Mine to Silverado is robbed by a mysterious bandit called The Monk,and he suspects Foss. To clear himself, Foss suggests both stages take the next gold shipment and see who gets robbed and who doesn't. This strikes all-concerned as a good idea. But it turns out otherwise.
Keywords: 1880s, b-movie, b-western, bandit, barfly, based-on-novel, california, challenge, cigarette-smoking, cigarettes
WILD LOVE FLARES in the flames of a bandit's fire! (original print ad)
A GREAT STORY OF GREAT DAYS! (original poster-all caps)
The wild frontier as ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON saw it and lived it! (original poster)
MAN AGAINST MAN FOR A WOMAN...with the rule-book thrown away! (original print ad)
KILLING! LOOTING! LOVING! - That was the West...this is its story...written in gunfire..(original print ad)
SPECTACULAR ACTION AND ROMANCE ON THE OLD FRONTIER...immortalized by Robert Louis Stevenson
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S Own Adventures in the Lusty West!
The West of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON!
Nigel Planer talks about Robert Louis Stevenson
The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson
KIDNAPPED - Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - Full unabridged audiobook - FabAudioBooks
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TREASURE ISLAND - FULL AudioBook by Robert Louis Stevenson - Adventure / Pirate Fiction
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Part 1 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 1-6)
Part 2 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 7-12)
Part 5 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 22-27)
Part 6 - Treasure Island Audiobook by Robert Louis Stevenson (Chs 28-34)
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Outlander - Main Title Theme “Skye Boat Song”
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ipi ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE Illustrated Book 1930
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Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb in Vailima, Samoa.
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