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| Name: |
Robert Louis Stevenson | | Birth Date: |
November 13, 1850 | | Death Date: |
1894 | | Place of Birth: |
Edinburgh, Scotland | | Nationality: |
Scottish | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson
998 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was one of the most popular and highly regarded British writers of the end of the 19th century. He played a significant part in the revival of the novel of romance. During...
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Biography of Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson
16,685 words, approx. 56 pages
 At the time of his death in Samoa in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson was regarded by many critics and a large reading public as the most important writer in the English-speaking world. "Surely another age will wonder over this curiosity of letters," wrote...
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Biography of Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson
10,706 words, approx. 36 pages
 A combination of artistic ambitions, a thirst for adventure and discovery, courtship of and eventual marriage to an American, and above all poor health turned Robert Louis Stevenson into a life-long wanderer. His early travel writing demonstrates his...



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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
5,157 words, approx. 17 pages
 To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson ( 1850-11-13 – 1894-12-03 ) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism...


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Stevenson, Robert Louis
2,083 words, approx. 7 pages (born Nov. 13, 1850, Edinburgh—died Dec. 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa) Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, best known for his novels Treasure Island (1881), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886),...
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Stevenson, Robert Louis (Balfour)
159 words, approx. 1 pages (born Nov. 13, 1850, Edinburgh, Scot.—died Dec. 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa) Scottish essayist, novelist, and poet. He prepared for a law career but never practiced. He traveled frequently, partly in search of better climates for his tuberculosis,...
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Robert Louis Stevenson - (1850 - 1894) Summary
15,822 words, approx. 53 pages Robert Louis Stevenson - (1850 - 1894) (Full name Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson) Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and playwright. An inventive prose stylist, Stevenson is the versatile author of classic works in several genres....
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Robert Louis Stevenson Information
4,401 words, approx. 15 pages
 Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13 1850 – December 3 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge...




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 The Economist (US)
Robert Louis Stevenson.
06/19/1993: 433 words, approx. 1 pages ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By Frank McLynn. Hutchinson; 448 pages; Pounds20. To be published in America by Random House FEW men's literary reputations can have tarnished as quickly and decisively as that of Robert Louis Stevenson, who is remembered chiefly as the author...
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 The Boston Globe
Robert Louis Stevenson, Beyond the romance
12/04/1994: 1,281 words, approx. 4 pages ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By Frank McLynn. Random House. 567 pp. Illustrated. $30. THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vols. I-IV. Edited by Bradford A. Booth and Ernest Mayhew. Yale. Illustrated. $45 each volume. Robert Taylor is professor of...
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Literary Pilgrimage in Upstate New York
9/11/2006: 1,482 words, approx. 5 pages Twin baby grand pianos stand in the living room of a white clapboard farmhouse high on the Taconic Ridge on the border of New York and Massachusetts. Here the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay composed and played...
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New guide to literary Monterey, Calif.
1/30/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages A new tourism map of Monterey County can help you plan a literary pilgrimage to places associated with John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other writers.The "Scenes For Your Senses Literary & Film Map," produced by the Monterey County Convention...


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