ROBERT%20LOUIS%20STEVENSON

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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

• MATIS LEIMA XI A

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• Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson 
• 13 November 1850, Edinburgh
• 3 December 1894, Samoa
• Scottish novelist, poet,
• essayist and travel writer

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• Only child of Thomas Stevenson and Margaret
  Isabella Balfour
• Fragile health, nearly died in 1858
• Disposition to write at
• the age of six
• Talent civil engineering
• Earliest works in 1866
• Meets Mr. Sidney Colvin

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• Wanderings in France, Germany, Scotland
• An Inland Voyage
• Physical activity improves health
• First recognized as a writer
• Moved to San Francisco
• and married in May, 1880
• Returned to Scotland
• The Sea-Cook e.g.
• Treasure Island

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• Lived in Marseilles, Hyères, Bournemouth
• Struck the public taste with The Strange Case of
  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• 1887 last productive year
• Sailed the Pacific

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Travels

• Edinburgh
• London
• Barbizon Grez
• Belgium
• California
• Casco Cruise

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Novels

• Treasure Island
• Jekyll Hyde
• Kidnapped
• Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
• Weir of Hermiston

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Treasure Island

• First person story by Jim Hawkins
• Meeting pirates by coincidence
• Treasure map
• Adventure with
• Long John Silver
• Finale battle with the
• pirates and Jims party

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