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 ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stevenson’s was one of those large, flowing talents of the kind that always seem to leave lots of spillage in the ...

Since his death, aged 44, in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson has had a “distinctly mixed” literary reputation, said Andrew Motion in The New Statesman. To many modernists, and especially the Bloomsbury ...

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 ...

Sheltering in place this spring to hide out from the coronavirus, I’ve been keeping busy by reading escapist literature. A younger version of myself might have curled up with a copy of Robert Louis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artifacts and clothing from the travels of Robert Louis Stevenson. In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in 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 ...