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The Stevenson Society of America will hold a celebration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s 175th birthday on Thursday, Nov. 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Saranac Lake Free Library. The Society is also ...

After a lifetime's research, Roger Swearingen may be the man to finally do Robert Louis Stevenson justice, says Robert McCrum The former poet laureate takes Jim Hawkins back to the island in search of ...

If Robert Louis Stevenson was unhappy with the direction one of his books was headed, the impassioned Scotsman had a habit of tossing it into the nearest fire. This is precisely what happened with the ...

The major novels of Robert Louis Stevenson contain few female characters—in “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” the sole adult feminine presence is a house maid—but there is no doubt about the ...

CHAPTERS from a controversial book by Robert Louis Stevenson, with the paragraphs originally censored reinstated, will be distributed free in Edinburgh next month to mark the anniversary of his ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

A brief, long-lost essay by “Treasure Island” author Robert Louis Stevenson will be published on Friday, the Associated Press reports. The essay will appear in the Strand magazine, a mystery fiction ...

Alex Lyman, the new director of St. Helena's Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, wants to build more community engagement with the museum and its collection.

Stevenson was one of the happy few: he knew his life's business from childlhood. He was to write books. Happier still, and one of even a smaller minority, he early discovered that authorship is an art ...

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them ...