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Robert Louis Stevenson

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

November 13, 1850

Died

December 03, 1894

Website

http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Horror

Influences

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Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon. ...more

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Robert Louis Stevenson’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,651,471 ratings · 74,446 reviews · 6,845 distinct works • Similar authors

	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3.83 avg rating — 670,682 ratings — published 1886 — 559 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasure Island 3.85 avg rating — 543,355 ratings — published 1882 — 11072 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror 3.91 avg rating — 146,301 ratings — published 1886 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 68,241 ratings — published 1886 — 2346 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jenny Davidson (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36,280 ratings — published 1886 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Child's Garden of Verses 4.27 avg rating — 27,177 ratings — published 1885 — 2523 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Arrow 3.79 avg rating — 19,934 ratings — published 1883 — 99 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bottle Imp 3.70 avg rating — 8,597 ratings — published 1891 — 244 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Suicide Club (Prince Florizel, #1) 3.40 avg rating — 7,138 ratings — published 1878 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Master of Ballantrae 3.70 avg rating — 6,525 ratings — published 1889 — 935 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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15 votes, 4.5%

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14 votes, 4.2%

Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, 518 pages, 1891

13 votes, 3.9%

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, 360 pages, 1909

13 votes, 3.9%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1882

12 votes, 3.6%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

10 votes, 3.0%

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9 votes, 2.7%

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