Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13th of November 1850. He studied engineering with the intention of following his father into the lighthouse design business but found this profession dull and instead changed his studies to law. After graduation he never practised law, turning his mind to art and embarking on a career as a writer.
His first work An Inland Voyage, was published in 1878, and his breakthrough came 5 years later when Treasure Island was published. He went on to write 13 novels, most notably Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886 and The Master of Ballantrae in 1889. He also had several collections of his short stories published. He died on the 3rd of December 1894, aged just 44.
Robert Louis Stevenson is reported to be amongst the 30 most translated authors in the world and he was greatly admired by many of his contemporaries. How much do you know about him and his works?
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He was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 13th of November 1850. His father was the lighthouse engineer, Thomas Stevenson
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Originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys, it was first published as a serial in the children's magazine Young Folks with the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola
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It's Alan Breck who rescues him
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Carew, a kind and elderly MP, is murdered by Hyde when he is in a rage
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The book is an account of Stevenson's 12-day, 120-mile journey through the barely populated and poor areas of the Cévennes mountains in France
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The inn is named after the real life Admiral John Benbow, who fought against France during the Nine Years War from 1688–97
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It is part of The Amateur Emigrant
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It includes such favourites as My Shadow and The Lamplighter
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Catriona was written in 1893 and tells the further adventures of David Balfour
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Stevenson died of a cerebral haemorrhage whilst straining to open a bottle of wine. He was forty-four years old
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