Bibliography
Bibliography of Robert L. Stevenson :
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.
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)
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1877 |
New Arabian
Nights |
Stevenson's
first published fiction when he was 27 years old. |
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1877 |
New Arabian
Nights |
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1877 |
Uncollected |
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1877 |
Uncollected |
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1878 |
New Arabian
Nights |
Seven
interconnected stories in two cycles: The Suicide
Club (3 stories) and The Rajah's Diamond (4 stories). |
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1878 |
New Arabian
Nights |
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1880 |
New Arabian
Nights |
Told in 9
mini-chapters. Conan Doyle in 1890 called it the first English short story. |
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1882 |
Uncollected |
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1882 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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1884 |
Uncollected |
First published
in the Christmas 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette. |
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"Markheim" |
1885 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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1886 |
Uncollected |
Often called a short
story or a novella. |
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1887 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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1887 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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"Olalla" |
1887 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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1887 |
The Merry Men
and Other Tales and Fables |
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1887 |
Uncollected |
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1891 |
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1892 |
First published
in the Illustrated
London News in 1892 |
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1893 |
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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)
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.
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].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
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