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Robert Louis Stevenson
[1850-1894]
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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. “If a man love the labour of his trade, apart from any suggestion — Robert Louis Stevenson
By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson entry at Wikipedia
Novels (and Novellas) of R.L. Stevenson
browse Literature & Fiction / Robert Louis Stevenson Dept. {3,800+ titles} at Amazon
"Treasure Island" [1893 novel]
 | "Treasure Island" [M.G.M. Aug 1934] Directed by Victor Fleming; based on the R.L.S. novel {above}; starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper. Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger. Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce & Charles 'Chic' Sale Warner Home Video b&w DVD [10/2006] for $17.99 Warner color VHS [11/89] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "Treasure Island" [Disney July 1950] Directed by Byron Haskin; based on the R.L.S. novel {below}; starring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea. Finlay Currie, Geoffrey Keen & Geoffrey Wilkinson Disney color DVD [3/97] for $19.99 Disney color VHS [3/97] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb |
 | "Long John Silver: Return To Treasure Island" [TI/DCA Dec 1954 sequel] Directed by Byron Haskin; starring Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Lloyd Berrell & Rod Taylor VCI color CinemaScope DVD [6/2006] for $9.99 Direct Source color VHS [6/99] for $3.99 Celebrity color VHS [1/87] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"The Black Arrow: A Tale of The Two Roses" [1883]
"Prince Otto" (1885)
set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1886 novella]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_Strange_Case_of_Dr._Jekyll_and_Mr._Hyde
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" silent feature film
[Famous Players-Lasky / Paramount-Artcraft March 1920]
Directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore, Charles Lane & Nita Naldi
full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
watch free online [1:21:59] at Internet Archive
"Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" silent two-reeler
[Standard/Selznick July 1925]
A lampoon of John Barrymore's 1920 feature; esteemed Victorian scientist Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig
in experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster. Produced & co-directed by Joe Rock;
co-directed by Scott Pembroke; starring Stan Laurel, Julie Leonard & Pete the Dog
credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
watch free online [19:42] at Internet Archive
"Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical" [Broadway 1997]
 | Book & lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, music by Frank Wildhorn
Original Broadway production credits at IBDb: 1543 performances April 1997 to Jan 2001 Touring company 2012-13 starring Constantine Maroulis & Deborah Cox Broadway revival starring Constantine Maroulis & Deborah Cox
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"Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical - Concept Recording" [2012] featuring Constantine Maroulis, Deborah Cox & Teal Wicks Broadway Records CD album [9/2012] 18 tracks for $12.74 |
 | "Hyde: A Novel" [2014] by Daniel Levine While Mr. Hyde is trapped inside Dr. Jekyll's locked surgical cabinet, he looks over the recent events that got him there; he tries to determine whether the missing women are actions of his own or of a mysterious stalker foisting undeserved blame onto him. Book includes Stevenson's original novella appended at the back. Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [3/2014] for $13.49 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2014] for $15.18 |
"Kidnapped" [1886]
"The Master of Ballantrae" [1889] set in Scotland, America & India
"The Wrong Box" [1889] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
A comic novel of a tontine, filmed in 1966
"The Wrecker" [1892] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
"Catriona" [1893] a sequel to "Kidnapped", also known as "David Balfour"
"The Ebb Tide" [1894] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
"Weir of Hermiston" [1896] unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
"St. Ives: Being The Adventures of A French Prisoner In England" [1897]
unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; novel completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Short Stories & Poetry
"New Arabian Nights" [1882]
"More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter" [stories 1885]
co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
"A Child's Garden of Verses" [poems 1885]
"The Merry Men and Other Tales & Fables" [stories 1887]
"Underwoods" [poems in both English and Scots; 1887]
"Ballads" [1891]
"Island Nights' Entertainments" aka "South Sea Tales" [stories 1893]
"Songs of Travel and Other Verses" [poems 1896]
 | "The Great Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson" [1951] 11 stories, including "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1886 novella] Pocket Library mass pb [1951] out of print/used Pocket mass pb [1952] out of print/used Pocket Books Collector's Edition hardcover [1951] out of print/used |
 | "The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson" [1969 & 1998] Edited & with a scholarly introduction by Charles Neider 20 stories, including all 11 stories from "New Arabian Nights" [1882]; "Markheim" (1885); "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886 novella); "The Enchantress" (1889), which disappeared for 70 years; and "The Bottle Imp" (1891) Perseus/Da Capo Press 8x5 pb [8/98] for $27.50 Doubleday hardcover [6/69] out of print/used |
 | "The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson" [2002] Edited by Barry Menikoff 25 stories, including all 11 stories from "New Arabian Nights" [1882]; "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886 novella); all 6 stories from "The Merry Men" [1887]; 3 from "Island Nights' Entertainments" [1893]; and four uncollected tales: "An Old Song", "The Story of A Lie", "The Body-Snatcher", and "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christman Story" Modern Library 7¾x5¼ pb [10/2002] for $13.00 |
Non-Fiction & Travel Writing
"An Inland Voyage" (1878)
A journey with a friend in a canoe from Antwerp, Belgium to Pontoise, just north of Paris
"Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes" [1879]
one of the first books to present hiking & camping as recreational activities
"Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers" [1881]
"Familiar Studies of Men and Books" [1882]
"The Silverado Squatters" [1883] see below
"Memories and Portraits" [essays 1887]
"Father Damien: An Open Letter To The Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu" [1890]
"A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble In Samoa" [1892]
"Three Plays" by W.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [London: Nutt 1892]
"Across The Plains" [1892] see below
"Vailima Letters" [1895]
"The Amateur Emigrant" [1895] see below
"In The South Seas" [articles & essays 1896 & 1912]
"Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson To His Family & Friends"
[London 1899] Edited by S. Colvin
"The New Lighthouse On The Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire" [1995]
based on an 1872 manuscript, edited by R.G. Swearingen
From Europe To California
Stevenson left Europe in 1876 to follow after Fanny; he arrived in Monterey, California near death
and was nursed back to health by 1879; they married in May 1880 and spent the summer in a cabin
on Mount Saint Helena; they sailed in August from New York to return to Britain.
"The Amateur Emigrant" [written 1879–80, published 1895]
Stevenson's account of the first leg of his journey to California, by ship from Europe to New York
"Across The Plains" [written 1879–80, published 1892]
The second leg of Stevenson's journey, by train from New York to California
"The Silverado Squatters" [1883]
Stevenson's unconventional honeymoon trip with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd,
to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley, California
"From The Clyde To California: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Emigrant Journey" [1985]
by Andrew Noble /0080324231/
Works About Robert Louis Stevenson
There are over 200 published biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Lighthouse Stevensons" by Bella Bathurst
"Stevenson Under The Palm Trees" by Aleberto? Manguel from canongate USA 12/2004?
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Robert-Louis-Stevenson-ebook/dp/B0076QK5CO/
 | "Under The Wide and Starry Sky: A Novel" [2014] by Nancy Horan The story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his feisty American wife, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Kindle Edition from Ballantine/Random House [1/2014] for $10.65 Ballantine Books 9½x6¼ hardcover [1/2014] for $19.71 |
 | "The Last Bookaneer" [2015] by Matthew Pearl  The publishing industry has used 'bookaneer' agents for a hundred years to operate as literary pirates and steal new manuscripts before publication so that the publishers can increase profits by not paying the authors. But in 1890 a new international treaty will soon take effect that will halt the practice. Star bookaneer Pen Davenport and his reluctant assistant Fergins attempt to make one last grab by traveling to American Samoa in hopes of capturing the final novel of the dying consumptive author Robert Louis Stevenson. The job is tough enough, but other bookaneers have gotten the scent . . . Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [4/2015] for $11.99 Penguin Press 9¼x6 pb [undated] - status unclear Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2015] for $19.17 |
Kindle Editions
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 | "Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson" for Kindle [2011]
Kindle Edition from Delphi Classics [3/2011] for $2.51 150+ works by Robert Louis Stevenson, including 12 novels, 3 unfinished novels, 6 short story collections (with 2 indexes), 5 stageplays, 5 poetry books (with 2 indexes), travel writings, essays, 3 biographies, original Victorian artwork, the complete letters, and more |
 | "The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: 30 Books and Short Stories" for Kindle [2009] Kindle Edition from Halcyon Press Ltd. [10/2009] for $1.99 a smaller selection of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson: 13 novels & novelettes and 17 short stories |
Friends & Family
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, Scotland and died in the Samoan Islands in 1894 at age 44.
Frances Matilda 'Fanny' Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson [1840-1914] - met 1876, married 1880, widowed 1894
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Stevenson
stepdaughter Isobel 'Belle' Osbourne Strong Field [1858-1953]
wrote about Emperor Norton in her autobiography "This Life I've Loved"
stepson Lloyd Osbourne [1868-1947]
stepson Hervey Osbourne [1870-76] died in France at age 6
L i n k s
browse books by & about Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson entry at Wikipedia
Robert Louis Stevenson credits [from 1908] at Internet Movie Database
Gutenberg etexts
ST's Robert Louis Stevenson stamps fanpage
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http://www.bibliograph.ru/Biblio/S/STEVENSON/STEVENSON.html
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