Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer.

Island Literature

Although not well known, his island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area.

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Non-fiction works on the Pacific

• In the South Seas. A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
• A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1912)

Island fiction

• The Beach at Falesa, one of his most mature works, it explores the relationship between white traders and islanders in a way that anticipates Conrad and Maugham.
• An Island Nights' Entertainment. Three great stories: The Bottle Imp, The Beach at Falesá and The Isle of Voices.
• The Wrecker with Lloyd Osbourne
• The Ebb Tide with Lloyd Osbourne

Works in Scots

Stevenson also wrote poetry and prose in Scots. See ScotsteXt

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