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About Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Ladybird Classics: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson from Ladybird

8 days ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Ladybird Classics: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson from Penguin Random House Children's UK

8 days ago

National Storytelling Week

Make a new friends, discover a new land or just escape in this brilliant story book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson from Macmillan Collector's Library

8 days ago

Bedtime Stories

After all that excitement how about a brilliant bedtime read! A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson from Penguin Random House Children's UK. Great to help them get to sleep.

1 month ago

Bedtime Stories

After all that excitement how about a brilliant bedtime read! A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson from Puffin. Great to help them get to sleep.

1 month ago

Christmas Eve

It's nearly here! A brilliant bedtime read to hopefully send them off for a long sleep! A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson from Penguin Random House Children's UK

1 month ago

Christmas Eve

It's nearly here! A brilliant bedtime read to hopefully send them off for a long sleep! A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson from Puffin

1 month ago

Saint Andrew’s Day

Loving Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson from Macmillan Collector's Library.

2 months ago

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