Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and essayist of the late nineteenth century, best known for *Treasure Island* and *Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde*.
His adventure stories and psychological tales remain widely read.
He spent his final years in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
Scotland's seat of government
- ScotlandNorthern British nation
- SamoaSouth Pacific island nation
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
- CalvinistPredestination theology adherent
Presbyterian · Bournemouth · bohemian · invalid · wanderer · exile · death
Adventure tale with pirates
- dualityTwofold nature
- gothicDark, mysterious aesthetic
- psychologicalOf the mind
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
morality · romance · serialized · Long John Silver · Jim Hawkins
Author of short prose
- travelogueAccount of journeys abroad
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- canoeSlender paddled vessel
- CaliforniaWest coast megastate
The years 1801-1900
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- adventure fictionGenre featuring exciting journeys
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- empireDomain under unified control
Metered poetic passage
- rhymeMatching terminal sounds
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- bedtimeDesignated hour for retiring
nursery · imagination · lamplighter · requiem
Edinburgh
Scotland's seat of government
- ScotlandNorthern British nation
- SamoaSouth Pacific island nation
- tuberculosisMycobacterial lung disease
Calvinist · Presbyterian · Bournemouth · bohemian · invalid · wanderer · exile · death
Treasure Island
Adventure tale with pirates
- dualityTwofold nature
- gothicDark, mysterious aesthetic
- psychologicalOf the mind
horror · morality · romance · serialized · Long John Silver · Jim Hawkins
essayist
Author of short prose
- travelogueAccount of journeys abroad
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- canoeSlender paddled vessel
California · Marquesas · personal essay · literary criticism
nineteenth-century
The years 1801-1900
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- adventure fictionGenre featuring exciting journeys
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
empire · gaslight · gentility · serialization · penny dreadful
verse
Metered poetic passage
bedtime · nursery · imagination · lamplighter · requiem
- Adventure AuthorsTom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Jack London, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne
- NovelistsStephen King, Agatha Christie, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
- Piratespirate, buccaneer, corsair, corsairs, privateers
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- 1880s LiteratureTreasure Island, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, King Solomon's Mines, Ben-Hur
- California ParksYosemite, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Channel Islands, Big Sur
Robert Louis StevensonÉmile Zola
Thomas Hardy · Fyodor Dostoevsky · Charles Dickens · Gustave Flaubert · Upton Sinclair
Robert Louis StevensonErnest Hemingway
Robert Louis StevensonGeorge Eliot
Pseudonymous Victorian novelist
Henry James · Marcel Proust · James Joyce · Virginia Woolf · Jane Austen