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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

Tuesday Dec 15, 2020

Robert Louis Stevenson: How to judge the day

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Thursday Jan 5, 2017

Robert Louis Stevenson: Where resides joy

Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.