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.
My kids gave it 5 stars! It’s always fun to read about pirates and lost treasure!
My favorite moment was when we were playing outside and the girls randomly started yell-singing the chorus from Captain Flint: “yo ho ho and a bottle of rum” 😂🫣