If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...

If biographies seldom seem as deeply satisfying as fiction, as intense and intimate, it is because biographers cannot actually enter a character’s mind and reveal what no one but the character knows, ...

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 ...

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Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), acclaimed for his novels “Treasure Island,” “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” and “Kidnapped,” as well as for his poetry collection “A ...

Good morning. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short time in Bournemouth, where he developed an epistolary friendship with Henry James, was one of the most productive periods of his life. Andrew O’Hagan tells ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...