The complete online text of St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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 Rober...

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 S...

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 kee...

ST IVES, CORNWALL AT THE turn of the 20th century, St Ives was a tiny, picturesque town teeming with fishing boats and with artists. Most of the latter had come from London, drawn, as were Walter Sickert and James McNeill Whistler through several...

Through the windows of Karl Weschke's studio is a fantastic view of Cape Cornwall and the Irish sea - squalls, rainbows and a wave- churning headland. It is a landscape to match his mythic story, the principal subject of his powerful paintings, imbued with...