Robert Louis Stevenson was intended by his father to be an engineer, trained as a lawyer, and became a writer of stories of high adventure. They were devalued by the modernists but have come to be taken much more seriously by critics in recent years. Stevenson had poor health his whole life, but he still lived a live of adventure, spending many of his last years at sea in the South Pacific. He died at 44 and was buried on the Samoan island of Upolu.
Genres: Thriller, Literary Fiction, Horror, Young Adult Fiction
Novels
Will O' The Mill (1878)
Treasure Island (1883)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
The Black Arrow (1888)
The Wrong Box (1889) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Wrecker (1892) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Ebb Tide (1894) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
Weir of Hermiston (1896)
The Master of Ballantrae (1897)
St. Ives (1898) (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Treasure Island (1883)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
The Black Arrow (1888)
The Wrong Box (1889) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Wrecker (1892) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Ebb Tide (1894) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
Weir of Hermiston (1896)
The Master of Ballantrae (1897)
St. Ives (1898) (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch)
Omnibus
Collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
The Merry Men (1887)
Underwoods (poems) (1887)
Ballads (poems) (1890)
Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
The Body Snatcher (1895)
The Suicide Club (1895)
Songs of Travel (poems) (1896)
The Story of a Lie (1904)
Tales and Fantasies (1905)
New Poems and Variant Readings (poems) (1918)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1921)
Moral Emblems and Other Poems (poems) (1921)
The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson (1976)
Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories (1979)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (2017)
The Merry Men (1887)
Underwoods (poems) (1887)
Ballads (poems) (1890)
Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
The Body Snatcher (1895)
The Suicide Club (1895)
Songs of Travel (poems) (1896)
The Story of a Lie (1904)
Tales and Fantasies (1905)
New Poems and Variant Readings (poems) (1918)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1921)
Moral Emblems and Other Poems (poems) (1921)
The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson (1976)
Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories (1979)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (2017)
Novellas
Non fiction
Travels With A Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
The Old and New Pacific Capitals (1880)
The Silverado Squatters (1884)
Memories and Portraits (1887)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1888)
Across the Plains (1892)
A Footnote to History (1892)
The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
Vailima Letters (1896)
In the South Seas (1900)
Virginibus Puerisque (1901)
The Meaning Of Friendship (1909)
The Lantern-Bearers (1988)
The Old and New Pacific Capitals (1880)
The Silverado Squatters (1884)
Memories and Portraits (1887)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1888)
Across the Plains (1892)
A Footnote to History (1892)
The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
Vailima Letters (1896)
In the South Seas (1900)
Virginibus Puerisque (1901)
The Meaning Of Friendship (1909)
The Lantern-Bearers (1988)
Anthologies containing stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
Novels of Mystery (1945)
The Haunted Looking Glass (1959)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
Tales of the Supernatural (1962)
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (1964)
Black Tales (1965)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 185 (1966)
The Premature Burial and Other Tales of Horror (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Black Water (1983)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1987)
Tales of the Dark (1987)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997)
The Mystery Book (1934)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
Novels of Mystery (1945)
The Haunted Looking Glass (1959)
The Frankenstein Reader (1962)
Tales of the Supernatural (1962)
A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (1964)
Black Tales (1965)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 185 (1966)
The Premature Burial and Other Tales of Horror (1966)
Where Nightmares Are (1966)
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967)
The Ghouls Book 2 (1971)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
Sixty-Five Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979)
Black Water (1983)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1987)
Tales of the Dark (1987)
The World's Library of Best Books Volume One (1988)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997)
Short stories
| The Adventures of the Hansom Cab | |||
| A Lodging for the Night | |||
| The Master of Ballantrae (excerpt) | |||
| Something in It | |||
| The Song of the Morrow | |||
| Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk | |||
| Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts | |||
| Thrawn Janet (1881) | |||
| The Body-Snatcher (1884) | |||
| Olalla (1885) | |||
| The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [short story] (1886) | |||
| The Bottle Imp (1891) | |||
| The Beach of Falesa [short story] (1892) | |||
| The Ebb Tide [short story] (1893) | |||
| The Isle of Voices (1893) |
Books about Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (1968) by Compton Mackenzie
Victorian Quest Romance (1998) by Robert Fraser
Louis (2001) by Philip Callow
Robert Louis Stevenson (2008) by Eileen Dunlop
Victorian Quest Romance (1998) by Robert Fraser
Louis (2001) by Philip Callow
Robert Louis Stevenson (2008) by Eileen Dunlop
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