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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