Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (13.11. 1850 – 3.12. 1894 ), bio je škotski romanopisac , pjesnik i putopisac te vodeći predstavnik neoromantizma u engleskoj književnost . Prilično su ga cijenili mnogi autori kao Jorge Luis Borges , Ernest Hemingway , Rudyard Kipling i Vladimir Nabokov .[ 1] Njegovi suvremenici-modernisti ga, međutim, nisu cijeli jer je bio popularan te nije pisao u njihovim uskim okvirima književnosti. Tek nedavno su kritičari počeli gledati na Stevensona kao nešto više od popularnog pisca, te ga smještati u kanon. Po struci je bio pravnik, ali se nikada nije profesionalno bavio pravom. Često je putovao, djelomično u potrazi za klimom koja bi izliječila njegovu tuberkulozu, od koje je i umro u dobi od 44 godine.
↑ R.H.W. Dillard, Introduction to Treasure Island , by Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN 0-451-52704-6 . See Page XIII
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Biografije i komentari
There are over 200 published biographies of RLS Arhivirano 2008-02-16 na Wayback Machine-u
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial Arhivirano 2008-09-07 na Wayback Machine-u , by Alexander H. Japp
Robert Louis Stevenson Arhivirano 2004-10-14 na Wayback Machine-u , a biography by Sir Walter Raleigh
Robert Louis Stevenson: a memoir (1895), by Edmund Gosse who knew Stevenson personally.
Robert Louis Stevenson: biography (1911), by Edmund Gosse , from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Robert Louis Stevenson Arhivirano 2021-02-23 na Wayback Machine-u , biography from the Dictionary of Literary Biography , 1987.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the composer Arhivirano 2007-09-27 na Wayback Machine-u
Razno
Knjige
An Inland Voyage (1878)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Memories and Portraits (1887)
Across the Plains (1892) The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
Romani
Treasure Island (1883)
Prince Otto (1885)
Kidnapped (1886)
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888)
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
The Wrong Box (1889)
The Wrecker (1892)
Catriona (1893)
The Ebb-Tide (1894)
Weir of Hermiston (1896)
St. Ives (1897)
Zbirke priča
The Suicide Club (1878)
The Rajah's Diamond (1878)
New Arabian Nights (1882)
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885)
The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
Priče
Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts (1878)
Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk (1878)
The Adventure of the Hansom Cab (1878)
Story of the Bandbox (1878)
Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders (1878)
Story of the House with the Green Blinds (1878)
The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective (1878)
The Pavilion on the Links (1880)
The Merry Men (1882)
The Body Snatcher (1884)
Markheim (1885)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
The Bottle Imp (1891)
The Beach of Falesá (1892)
The Isle of Voices (1893)
Poezija
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Underwoods (1887)
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Srodni članci
Lloyd Osbourne
Fanny Stevenson
Mount Vaea
Robert Louis Stevenson State Park
The Story of a Recluse (nedovršena)