Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_L_Stevenson

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Life

• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850
  3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet,
  essayist and travel writer. Stevenson has been
  greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge
  Luis Borges,

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Life

• Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob,
  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".

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Life

• A bronze relief memorial to Stevenson, designed
  by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens in
  1904, is mounted in the Moray Aisle of St Giles
  Cathedral, Edinburgh.

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Life

• Another memorial in Edinburgh stands in West
  Princes Street Gardens below Edinburgh Castle it
  is a simple upright stone inscribed with "RLS - A
  Man of Letters 1850 -1894" by sculptor Iain
  Hamilton Finlay in 1987.

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• A garden was designed by the Bournemouth
  Corporation in 1957 as a memorial to Stevenson,
  on the site of his Westbourne house "Skerryvore"
  which he lived in from 1885 to 1887. A statue of
  the Skerryvore lighthouse is present on the site.

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• In 1994, to mark the 100th Anniversary of
  Stevenson's death, the Royal Bank of Scotland
  issued a series of commemorative 1 notes which
  featured a quill pen and Stevenson's signature on
  the obverse, and Stevenson's face on the reverse
  side.

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• Alongside Stevenson's portrait are scenes from
  some of his books and his house in Western Samoa
  where he died in 1894.62 Two million notes were
  issued, each with a serial number beginning
  "RLS". The first note to be printed was sent to
  Samoa in time for their centenary celebrations on
  3 December 1994.

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Stories

• The Ebb-Tide (1894)
• Catriona (1893)
• The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
• Treasure Island (1883)

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External links

• http//books.google.com/books?as_brr1qinauthor
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• http//www.gutenberg.org/author/RobertLouisSteve
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• http//onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/s
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