Bibliography

 

Bibliography of  Robert L. Stevenson :

 

Novels

Treasure Island (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. He originally entitled it The Sea Cook but an editor changed it.

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1883) An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses.

Prince Otto (1885) Stevenson’s third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a novella about a dual personality much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality.

Kidnapped (1886) is a historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland.

The Master of Ballantrae (1889), a masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland, America, and India.

The Wrong Box (1889); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which all the benefits go to the last survivor. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries.

The Wrecker (1892); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.

Catriona (1893), also known as David Balfour, is a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour's further adventures.

The Ebb-Tide (1894); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.

Weir of Hermiston (1896). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, considered to have promised great artistic growth.

St. Ives: being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

 

Short story collections

New Arabian Nights (1882)

More New Arabian Nights:The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)

Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) (1893)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short stories (more information)

 

Title

Date

Collection

Notes

"A Lodging for the Night"

1877

New Arabian Nights

Stevenson's first published fiction when he was 27 years old.

"The Sire De Malétroits Door"

1877

New Arabian Nights

 

"An Old Song"

1877

Uncollected

 

"Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family"

1877

Uncollected

 

"Later-day Arabian Nights"

1878

New Arabian Nights

Seven interconnected stories in two cycles: The Suicide Club (3 stories) and The Rajah's Diamond (4 stories).

"Providence and the Guitar"

1878

New Arabian Nights

 

"The Pavilion on the Links"

1880

New Arabian Nights

Told in 9 mini-chapters. Conan Doyle in 1890 called it the first English short story.

"The Story of a Lie"

1882

Uncollected

 

"The Merry Men"

1882

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

"The Body Snatcher"

1884

Uncollected

First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette.

"Markheim"

1885

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1886

Uncollected

Often called a short story or a novella.

"Will O' the Mill"

1887

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

"Thrawn Janet"

1887

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

"Olalla"

1887

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

"The Treasure of Franchard"

1887

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables

 

"The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story"

1887

Uncollected

 

"The Bottle Imp"

1891

Island Nights' Entertainments

 

"The Beach of Falesá"

1892

Island Nights' Entertainments

First published in the Illustrated London News in 1892

"The Isle of Voice"

1893

Island Nights' Entertainments

 

 

 

Poetry

A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), written for children but also popular with their parents. Includes such favourites as "My Shadow" and "The Lamplighter". Often thought to represent a positive reflection of the author's sickly childhood.

Underwoods (1887), a collection of poetry written in both English and Scots.

Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

Ballads (1891)

 

Other works ( Articles written by him)

"Béranger, Pierre Jean de", article for the ninth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1875–89)

Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers (1881)

Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)

Memories and Portraits (1887), a collection of essays.

Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu (1890)

Vailima Letters (1895)

The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire (1995). Based on an 1872 manuscript edited by R. G. Swearingen. California. Silverado Museum.

Sophia Scarlet (2008). Based on 1892 manuscript edited by Robert Hoskins. AUT Media (AUT University).

Aes Triplex (1887)

 

Travel writing

An Inland Voyage (1878), travels with a friend in a "Rob Roy" canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879), two weeks' solo ramble (with Modestine as his beast of burden) in the mountains of Cévennes (south-central France), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities. It tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags.

The Silverado Squatters (1883). An unconventional honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd. He presciently identifies the California wine industry as one to be reckoned with.

Across the Plains (written in 1879–80, published in 1892). Second leg of his journey, by train from New York to California (then picks up with The Silverado Squatters). Also includes other travel essays.

The Amateur Emigrant (written 1879–80, published 1895). An account of the first leg of his journey to California, by ship from Europe to New York. Andrew Noble (From the Clyde to California: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Emigrant Journey, 1985) considers it to be his finest work.

The Old and New Pacific Capitals (1882). An account of his stay in Monterey, California in August to December 1879. Never published separately. See, for example, James D. Hart, ed., From Scotland to Silverado, 1966.

 

Island literature

Although not well known, his island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area.

 

Non-fiction works on the Pacific

In the South Seas. A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.

A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892)[49].

 

 

 


 

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