Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Jim Hawkins finds a map and goes to sea with a crew that is not what the advertisement promised. Long John Silver remains the model of a charming villain.
Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson could write a straight adventure and a nightmare about a divided self in the same decade. Treasure Island and Jekyll and Hyde are both exact about consequence.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A London lawyer tries to understand the tie between a respectable doctor and a violent man who shares his house. Stevenson’s short novel is a study of a self split on purpose.
St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness.
Island Nights' Entertainments
Island Nights' Entertainments
Island Nights' Entertainments would prove to contain some of his final completed work before his death in 1894.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped
Kidnapped has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. Kidnapped is written in English with some dialogue in the Lowland Scots language.
The Dynamiter
The Dynamiter
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter is a gathering of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson.