Robert Louis Stevenson

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, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, 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."

Life

Childhood and youth

Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Stevenson (1818–87), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret Isabella (née Balfour; 1829–97). He was christened Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, Stevenson was to change the spelling of "Lewis" to "Louis", and in 1873 he dropped "Balfour."

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Audible best-sellers for week ending May 29th

Seattle PI 02 Jun 2020

Fiction .. 1. The Getaway by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, narrated by Emily Bauer (Audible Original). 2 ... 3 ... A Novel by Nora Roberts, narrated by January LaVoy (Macmillan Audio) ... An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson and Marty Ross – adaptation, narrated by Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate and Owen Teale (Audible Studios)....

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Woodburn: Traveling hopefully gets put on hold

Ventura County star 29 May 2020

Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson agreed, noting 300 years later. "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." ... ....

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Audible best-sellers for week ending May 24th

Wtop 26 May 2020

Fiction .. 1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. A Hunger Games Novel by Suzanne Collins narrated by Santino Fontana (Scholastic Audio). 2 ... 3 ... 4. Treasure Island. An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson and Marty Ross – adaptation, narrated by Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate and Owen Teale (Audible Studios). 5. Inside Jobs ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9....

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Laughter is more infectious than coronavirus

The Irish Times 22 May 2020

Dark times call for a light touch. William Shakespeare’s literary career was often interrupted by plague but he admirably rose to the challenge ... Creativity will always find a way to mutate even more quickly than a virus ... Robert Louis Stevenson was so incensed by King Pest he wrote that Poe had “ceased to be a human being” ... A memoir will follow ...  . ....

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Black humour helps us through dark days

The Irish Times 22 May 2020

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BYUradio and Gen-Z Media's "Treasure Island 2020" Nominated for Peabody Award

HJ News 20 May 2020

"Treasure Island 2020," a 21st century reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, was also recently chosen as a Webby Award honoree ... Each engaging 30-minute episode is rich in intrigue and drama ... All 10 episodes of the series were recorded in the studios of BYUradio in Provo, Utah ... About BYU Broadcasting ... About Gen-Z Media ... .......

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Audible best-sellers for week ending May 15th

Wtop 19 May 2020

Fiction .. 1. The Getaway by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, narrated by Emily Bauer (Audible Original). 2 ... 3. Inside Jobs. Tales from a Time of Quarantine by Ben H ... 4 ... An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson and Marty Ross – adaptation, narrated by Philip Glenister, Daniel Mays, Catherine Tate and Owen Teale (Audible Studios). 5 ... 6 ... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10....

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Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine

Boston Herald 19 May 2020

As for the film’s cultural touchstones – the repeated playing of Brahms’ Third Symphony on the piano, quoting Robert Louis Stevenson’s poetry – they are minor compared to its novel casting of Hepburn as a shrinking, nervous wallflower (!) and the usually stiff Taylor as a hollow man with a raging monster lurking inside....

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s California inspiration for “Treasure Island” and more

The Mercury News 18 May 2020

The area is now part of the Robert Louis Stevenson State Park ... In less viral times, you can also visit a scale model of the bunkhouse at the Robert Louis Stevenson museum in St ... Robert Louis Stevenson State Park ... Robert Louis Stevenson Museum....

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Bookish: The Bay Area’s literary scene, from books to things to do

The Mercury News 18 May 2020

We may be hunkered down at home, but our imaginations run free when we have a book or 12 in hand ... 50 best books. Booksellers and librarians tell all ... We can’t even. Here’s what they said ... Cookbooks ... Robert Louis Stevenson in the Bay Area ... May 19 ... Robert Louis Stevenson’s California inspiration for “Treasure Island” and more ... ....

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Author Scott Turow talks new novel ‘The Last Trial,’ hints at his next legal thriller

The Mercury News 18 May 2020

Scott Turow is back, and not surprisingly, so is Sandy Stern ... In that novel, Sabich hired Stern to defend him ... Q ... A ... But I didn’t want to be pigeonholed ... Q ... A ... Q ... Robert Louis Stevenson’s California inspiration for “Treasure Island” and more ... Robert Louis Stevenson’s California inspiration for “Treasure Island” and more ... ....

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INDIE VIEW: PORTRAIT OF A DRUNK is a soused nightmare of absurd cruelty

The Beat 18 May 2020

Portrait of a Drunk. By Olivier Schrauwen, Florent Ruppert, and Jérôme Mulot ... Like a Robert Louis Stevenson novel gone horribly wrong, Portrait of a Drunk dives headfirst into swashbuckling adventure, but with a focus on the wrong character in that adventure, the dive turns out to be into an empty swimming pool and the head cracked and concussed ... ....

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SF illustrator Lisa Brown reduces ‘Moby Dick,’ ‘Twilight’ to 3 panels

The Mercury News 18 May 2020

Into instant gratification? Like fast food? No time to read a 400-page tome? Well, you’re in luck. Best-selling illustrator, author and cartoonist Lisa Brown’s new book is the easily digested and utterly hilarious “Long Story Short ... Q ... A ... And yes, I did ... Q ... Robert Louis Stevenson’s California inspiration for “Treasure Island” and more ... ....