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Robert Louis Stevenson
(1850 - 1894)
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, Arthur Conan Doyle, 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.”
Bibliography
Best in Children’s Books Volume 18 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Read online at archive.org.
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888)
An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1916)
An historical romance set during the Wars of the Roses. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Catriona: A Sequel to “Kidnapped” Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad (1893)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
None
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
None
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1895)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
and twenty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Charles Robinson
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1905)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
And sixty-three other well-known poems. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Jessie Willcox Smith
A Child’s Garden of Verses (1978)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
and twenty-three other well-known poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1893)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
None
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1895)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad (1924)
In this second volume, David Balfour continues his adventures as he puts himself on the right side of the law, reclaims his inheritance and finds himself a wife.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Home from the Sea (1970)
A selection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson for young readers.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
An Inland Voyage (1878)
Robert Louis Stevenson and his friend Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson embark on a trip through Belgium and France by canoe which is chronicled in this book. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Kidnapped (1913)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
Kidnapped (1921)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Louis Rhead
Frank Schoonover
Kidnapped (1948)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1886)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 (1895)
When David Balfour comes to his uncle to claim his inheritance, he is kidnapped and put on a ship for the Carolinas. He escapes and, in company with Alan Breck Stewart, adventures about the Highlands of Scotland.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Howard Pyle
The Land of Nod (1988)
‘In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.’
and twenty-nine other familiar poems.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Robert Louis Stevenson
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague
Sung Under the Silver Umbrella (1935)
An anthology of poems.
Read online at archive.org.