ROBERT LOUIS
STEVENSON
MATIS LEIMA XI A
• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
• 13 November 1850, Edinburgh –
3 December 1894, Samoa
• Scottish novelist, poet,
• essayist and travel writer
• Only child of Thomas Stevenson and
Margaret Isabella Balfour
• Fragile health, nearly died in 1858
• Disposition to write at
the age of six
• Talent civil engineering
• Earliest works in 1866
• Meets Mr. Sidney Colvin
• Wanderings in France, Germany, Scotland
• „An Inland Voyage“
• Physical activity improves health
• First recognized as a writer
• Moved to San Francisco
and married in May, 1880
• Returned to Scotland
• „The Sea-Cook“ e.g.
„Treasure Island“
• Lived in Marseilles, Hyères, Bournemouth
• Struck the public taste with „The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde“
• 1887 last productive year
• Sailed the Pacific
Travels
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Edinburgh
London
Barbizon & Grez
Belgium
California
Casco Cruise
Novels
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Treasure Island
Jekyll & Hyde
Kidnapped
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Weir of Hermiston
Treasure Island
• First person story by Jim Hawkins
• Meeting pirates by coincidence
• Treasure map
• Adventure with
Long John Silver
• Finale battle with the
pirates and Jim’s party
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