Greatest Literature banner

Robert Louis Stevenson

THE AUTHOR | BIBLIOGRAPHY | VIEWS AND QUOTES

missing graphic
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, undated (National Library of New Zealand)
Biographical details ▽ Biographical details △

Born
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1850

Died
Vailima, Samoa, 1894

Publications
Novels, stories, poetry, travel writing, essays, journalism, letters

Writing languages
English, Scots

Writing places
Edinburgh, Scotland; London, England; France; California, United States; Bournemouth, England; Saranac Lake, New York, United States; Gilbert Islands; Tahiti; New Zealand; Australia; Samoa.

Greatest lists ▽ Greatest lists △
Literature

Treasure Island (1883)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Kidnapped (1886)

Novels

Treasure Island (1883)

Kidnapped (1886)

Novellas

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Stories

• "Thrawn Janet" (1881)

• "A Lodging for the Night" (1877)

British Literature

Treasure Island (1883)

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Kidnapped (1886)

Greateast Science Fiction

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

First appearance of works in book form

1877

The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth Novel

1878

An Inland Voyage Travel writing

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes Travel writing

1879

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Travel writing

1881

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers Essays

1882

Treasure Island Novel

New Arabian Nights Eleven stories

"The Suicide Club" story cycle, "The Rajah's Diamond" story cycle; "The Pavilion on the Links", "A Lodging for the Night", The Sire De Malétroits Door", "Providence and the Guitar"

Familiar Studies of Men and Books Criticism

1883

The Silverado Squatters Travel writing

1885

Prince Otto Novel

More New Arabian Nights Fourteen linked stories, with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson

"Prologue of the Cigar Divan", "Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames"' '"Story of the Destroying Angel", "The Squire of Dames (Concluded)", "Somerset's Adventure: The Superfluous Mansion"' '"Narrative of the Spirited Old Lady", "The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)", "Zero's Tale of the Explosive Bomb" "The Superfluous Mansion (Continued)", "Desborough's Adventure: The Brown Box", "Story of the Fair Cuban", "The Brown Box (Concluded)", "The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded)", "Epilogue of the Cigar Divan"

A Child's Garden of Verses Poems

1886

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Novella

Kidnapped Novel

1887

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables Six stories

"The Merry Men", "Will o' the Mill", "Markheim", "Thrawn Janet", "Olalla", "The Treasure of Franchard"

Memories and Portraits Essays

On the Choice of a Profession Nonfiction

The Day After Tomorrow Nonfiction

Underwoods Poems

1888

The Black Arrow Novel

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin Nonfiction

1889

The Master of Ballantrae Novel

1889

The Wrong Box Novel

1890

Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu Letter

1891

Ballads Poems

1892

The Wrecker Novel

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa History

Across the Plains Travel writing, written 1879–1880

1893

Catriona Novel, also called David Balfour

Island Nights' Entertainments Three stories

"The Beach of Falesá", "The Bottle Imp", "The Isle of Voices"

1884

The Ebb-Tide Novel, with Lloyd Osbourne

1895

The Amateur Emigrant Travel writing, written 1879–1880

1896

Weir of Hermiston Novel, unfinished

Fables Twenty stories

"The Persons of the Tale", "The Sinking Ship", "The Two Matches", "The Sick Man and the Fireman", "The Devil and the Innkeeper", "The Penitent", "The Yellow Paint", "The House of Eld", "The Four Reformers", "The Man and His Friend", "The Reader", "The Citizen and the Traveller", "The Distinguished Stranger", "The Carthorses and the Saddlehorse", "The Tadpole and the Frog", "Something in It", "Faith, Half Faith and No Faith at All", "The Touchstone", "The Poor Thing", "The Song of the Morrow"

In the South Seas Articles and essays

1897

St Ives Novel, unfinished, completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch

1904

Prayers Written at Vailima Prayers

1905

Tales and Fantasies Three stories

Essays in the Art of Writing Essays

"The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story", "The Body Snatcher", "The Story of a Lie"

Essays of Travel Travel writing

1916–1921

Poems Hitherto Unpublished Poems, in three volumes

1992

Three Plays Three plays, with William Ernest Henley

Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, Admiral Guinea

1995

The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire Nonfiction, written in 1872

1996

South Sea Tales Six stories

"The Beach of Falesá", "The Bottle Imp", "The Isle of Voices", "The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette", "The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse", "Something in It"

Songs of Travel and Other Verses Poems

2002

Dreams of Elsewhere: The Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson Trvel writing, ed. June Skinner Sawyers

2008

Sophia Scarlet and Other Pacific Writings Essays

 

THE AUTHOR | BIBLIOGRAPHY | VIEWS AND QUOTES