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

• Edinburgh• London• Barbizon & Grez• Belgium• California• Casco Cruise

Novels• 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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