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About Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer. He is remembered for fiction that includes Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped. His work also includes the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses. He wrote across several forms, but is most closely associated with adventure stories, moral darkness, and verse for children.
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- “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”Robert Louis Stevenson
- “If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.”Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger--the black flag…”Robert Louis Stevenson
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Books by Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
1910
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1875
The black arrow
1888
Kidnapped
2002
David Balfour
1892