Danahay, Martin A. (1999). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press (UK: Turpin Distribution) [15 pp. Introduction; Appendices with related writings by RLS ("A Chapter on Dreams," "Markheim," letters) and reviews; a section on the stage version of J&H; documents about degeneration & crime, London in the 1880's; select bibliography; modest amount of footnoting].
Jolly, Roslyn (ed.) (1999). South Sea Tales. Oxford: OUP (Oxford World's Classics). ISBN: 0192837001. [Expected publication date: September 1999].
Naugrette, Jean-Pierre (ed.) (1999). L'île au trésor. Paris: Gallimard (la bibliothèque Gallimard). Transl. by Jacques Papy (1974). [School edition with many notes and commentaries, of interest to scholars as well as juvenile readers].
Rennie, Neil (ed.) (1998). In the South Seas. London : Penguin [includes introduction & notes].
Glenda Norquay (ed.) (1999). Stevenson on Fiction. An Anthology of Literary and Critical Essays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP [Fourteen annotated essays with an Introduction. The latter is divided into the following sections: (i) Realism versus Romance, (ii) Reading as a writer and reading as a reader, (iii) Imagination and the child, (iv) Literary production, (v) The Popular, (vi) Influences, (vii) The Modern; more information on this volume].
Menikoff, Barry (ed.) (June, 1999). Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. The Boy with the Silver Button. Los Angeles: Huntington Library Press. ISBN 0-87328-177-2, US $29.95 [Introduction (46 pp.); Close transcription of final text of Stevenson's holograph (Huntington Library HM2410, only obvious spelling mistakes corrected, includes many Scots words and colloquialisms edited out of the first book edition); Ch. 28-30 (not in the ms.) from the Young Folks text; (vi) Notes, Glossary of Scots words, Gazeteer.
The Introduction deals with the following points: S's brief, visual style belongs to a parallel tradition to mainstream literary novel - Is it a text for children? - deals with fear and learning to face it - immediacy given by memorable details - through the topographical plot S contributes to Scottish national culture - descriptions mainly by suggestive detail of by mood and atmosphere - David learns truths of life - his uncertainty, confusion and ignorance - telling details in the economical portrayal of Ransome and Ebenezer - humour - S appreciated for his style - his use of Scots in K - David's experience of Gaelic and Southern English. More information on this volume].
Katz, Wendy R. (1998). Treasure Island.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (The Centenary Edition). [20
pp of introduction, 20 pp. of explanatory notes, appendices, variants between
the Young Folks (1881-2) and the 1883 version, textual notes etc.
The Introduction deals with the following
points: history of the composition, publication, immediate reception; Young
Folks and first edition compared; reception; sources of elements in the narrative,
intertextuality; Silver and Jim (in the work and in literary context); moral
authority in TI & ideology; afterlife].
Hart, Francis Russell (?1998). Tales
of Adventure. Edinburgh: Canongate. £7.99.
[Treasure Island, The Black Arrow,
'The House of Eld', 'The Song of the Morrow', 'Will O' the Mill', 'The Treasure
of Franchard', 'The Sire de Maletroit's Door'].
Letley, Emma (ed.) (1998). Treasure Island. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics.
Calder, Jenni (1997). Robert Louis Stevenson: Poetry. London: Dent (Everymans Poetry Library) (ISBN: 0460878093), $3.50. [a selection]
Poole, Adrian (ed.) (1997). The Master of Ballantrae : A Winter's Tale. London: Penguin Classics.
Miller, Karl (ed.) (1997). Weir of Hermiston. London: Penguin Classics.
*** (1996). A Footnote to History : Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa.
Harman, Claire (ed..) (1996). The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde : And Other Stories. London: Everyman's Library.
Jolly, Roslyn (ed. with an initroduction and notes) (1996). South Sea Tales. Oxford: Oxford paperbacks (World's Classics). [includes all the Pacific stories: 'The Beach of Falesà', 'The Bottle Imp', 'The Isle of Voices', The Ebb-Tide, and also 'The Cart-Horse and the Saddle-Horse', and 'Something In It'.].
Kerrigan, Catherine (ed.) (1995). Weir of Hermiston. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (The Centenary Edition). [20 pp of introduction, 10 pp. of explanatory notes, appendices, drafts, textual notes etc.].
Hinchcliffe, Peter and Catherine Kerrigan (eds.) (1995). The Ebb-Tide. A Trio and a Quartette. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (The Centenary Edition). [24 pp of introduction, 19 pp. of explanatory notes, 18 pp of textual notes] more information on this edition
Daiches, David (ed. and introduced by) (1995). The Ebb-Tide. London: Everyman Paperbacks.
Bell, Ian (ed.) (1994). The Complete
Short Stories. Edinburgh: Mainstream.
['The Centenary Edition'; presents the stories
in strict chronological order, rather than according to the volumes in which
they were originally printed].
Menikoff, Barry (ed. with an introduction)
(1993). Tales from the Prince of Storytellers. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern
University.
[Long introduction on RLS and the short
story 'Fable, Fiction and Modernism'; includes 'The Isle of Voices' in the text
of the original ms. and 'Markheim' in the ms. version closest to the text as
it appeared in The Broken Shaft, 1885].
Dury, Richard (ed. with an introduction
and notes) (1993). The Annotated Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Milan: Guerini.
[Gathers together and comments on interpretations
of the text; notes pay special attention to the 'strange language'].
Harman, Claire (ed.) (1993). Essays and Poems. London: Dent (Everyman's Library) (ISBN: 0460872249), $7.95.
Letley, Emma (ed.) (1993). Travels
With a Donkey in the Cevennes, and Selected Travel Writings. Oxford:
OUP (World's Classics) (ISBN: 0192826298) , $9.95.
[other travel writings are: An Inland
Voyage, Miscellaneous Essays, Memories of Fontainebleau, Swiss Notes].
Royle, Trevor (ed. and introduced by) (1993). Travels with a Donkey, An Island Voyage and The Silverado Squatters. London: Everyman Paperbacks.
Harman, Claire (ed. and introduced by) (1992). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories. London: Everyman Paperbacks.
Haman, Claire (ed. and introduced by) (1992). The Master of Ballantrae and Weir of Hermiston. London: Everyman Paperbacks.
Stoneley, Peter (1991). Robert Louis Stevenson: The Collected Shorter Fiction. ***: ***.
Calder, Jenni (ed. with an introduction by) (1990). Memories and Portraits. Glasgow: Richard Drew.
Calder, Jenni (new ending) & R.J. Storey (foreword) (1990). St. Ives. Glasgow: Richard Drew.
Oates, Joce Carol (ed.) (1990). Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Lincoln: U Nebraska P.
Mehew, Ernest (ed) (1989). The Wrong Box: the authentic text. London: Nonesuch.
Mann, David D. & Susan Garland Mann (eds.) (1989). 'The Enchantress'. The Georgia Review 43iii: 551-4 ('Introduction'), 554-568 (text).
Gelder, Kenneth (ed.) (1989, 1994). The Scottish Stories and Essays. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. ["the preface and the annotations together with the original texts which make up the real value of the anthology as a whole… a subtle and extremely informative introduction to the book, in which he delineates the close links between essays and short stories" - from a review by Joachim Schwend]
Calder, Jenni (1989). Kidnapped. Edinburgh: Cannongate.
Calder, Jenni (1989). Catriona. Edinburgh: Cannongate.
Treglown, Jeremy (ed.) (1988). The Lantern Bearers and other essays. London: Chatto & Windus.
Treglown, Jeremy (ed.) (1987). In the South Seas. London: The Hogarth Press.
Letley, Emma (ed.) (1987). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Weir of Hermiston. Oxford. OUP.
Letley, Emma (ed.) (1986). Kidnapped and Catriona. Oxford. OUP.
Noble, Andrew (1985). From the Clyde to California. Robert Louis Stevenson's Emigrant Journey. Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP.
Letley, Emma (ed.) (1985). Treasure Island. Oxford. OUP.
Menikoff, Barry (ed.) (1984). Robert Louis Stevenson and the The Beach of Falesà: A Study in Victorian Publishing, with the Original Text. Stanford UP/Edinburgh UP.
Daiches, David (ed. with an introduction by) (1983). Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes. Edinburgh: Salamander Press.
Roger G. Swearingen (ed) (1982). "An Old Song"...and..."Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family". Hamden, Conn/Paisley, Scotland: Archon/Wilfion.
Calder, Jenni (ed.) (1979). The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Harmonsworth: Penguin.
Swearingen, Roger G. (ed.) (1976-7). The Amateur Emigrant. Ashland: Lewis Osborne.
Smith, Janet Adam (ed. with intro
and notes).
Collected Poems. London/New York: Rupert Hart-Davis/Viking
(1951, 2nd ed 1971).
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