
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ==Life== Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson and grandson of Robert Stevenson, both successful lighthouse engineers, and Margaret Balfour. He studied at Edinburgh Academy in his youth. His parents were both very religious. Robert gave up the religion of his parents while studying at Edinburgh University, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him. Although ill with tuberculosis from childhood, Stevenson had a full life. He began his education as an engineer but, despite his family history, he showed little aptitude and soon switched to studying law. At the age of 18 he dropped the name Balfour and changed his middle name from Lewis to Louis (but retaining the original pronunciation); from this time on he began styling himself "RLS". He turned to the lawyer because of poor health, but he never practiced. He ended as a tribal leader (called by his tribe Tusitala) and plantation owner at his residence "Vailima" in Samoa, all this in addition to his literary career. Stevenson's novel of adventure, romance, and horror are of considerable psychological depth and have continued in popularity long after his death, both as books and as film. His wife Fanny (née Osbourne), whom he married in 1880, was a great support in his adventurous and arduous life. Stevenson made several trips to the Kingdom of Hawaii and became a good friend of David Kalakaua with whom Stevenson spent much time. Stevenson also became best friends with the king's niece Victoria Kaiulani, also of Scottish heritage. Since the tragic deaths of both Stevenson and Kaiulani, historians have debated the true nature of their relationship as to whether or not they had romantic feelings for each other. Because of the age difference, such stories have often been discredited. In 1888, Stevenson travelled to the island of Molokai just weeks after the death of Father Damien. He spent twelve days at the missionary priest's residence, Bishop Home at Kalawao. Stevenson taught the local girls to play croquet. When Congregationalist and Presbyterian ministers began to incite slander against Father Damien out of spite for his Catholicism, Stevenson wrote one of his most famous essays in defense of the life and work of the missionary priest. Stevenson died of a brain (cerebral) haemorrhage in Vailima in Samoa, aged 44. In his will, he bequeathed his birthday to a little girl who had been born on Christmas Day. ==Fiction== *''Treasure Island'' (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. It was originally called ''The Sea-Cook''. *''The Black Arrow'' (1884) A historical adventure set during the Wars of the Roses. It features an unusual subplot involving crossdressing. *''Kidnapped (book)'' (1886) is an historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck in the intrigues of Jacobitism troubles in Scotland. ''Catriona'' (1893) is a sequel, telling of Balfour's further adventures. *''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1886), a short novel about a Multiple personality disorder much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. *''The New Arabian Nights'' (1882), a collection of tales. *''The Body Snatcher'' (1885), another influential horror novel. *''The Wrong Box'', (1892), with Lloyd Osbourne, a comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which the last survivor gets all the insurance. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries. *''The Master of Ballantrae'' (1888), a masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland and America. *''Weir of Hermiston'' (1896), novel, unfinished at his death, considered to have promised great artistic growth. ==Poetry== *''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885), written for children but also popular with their parents. Includes such favorites as "My Shadow" and "The Lamplighter". Often thought to represent a positive reflection of the author's sickly childhood. ==Travel Writing== *''An Inland Voyage'' (1878), travels in a canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris. *''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' (1879), travels in Cévennes (France), one of the first books to present hiking and Camping (recreation) as recreation. It tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags. *''Silverado Squatters'' (1883), convalescence trip to a rough mining camp in Silverado, California with his family to improve his health which had suffered during a long trip from Europe. ==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. ===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'' ===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 Joseph Conrad and Somerset 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 language. See [http://www.scotstext.org/makars/robert_louis_stevenson/ ScotsteXt] ==External links== *[http://robert-louis-stevenson.classic-literature.co.uk/ Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson] *Project Gutenberg e-texts of [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a35 some of Robert Louis Stevenson's works] **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=120 Treasure Island]'' **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=43 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]'' **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=464 In the South Seas]'' * Full text of ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/590 Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial]'' Alexander H. Japp * Full text of the biography ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/333 Robert Louis Stevenson]'' by Sir Walter Raleigh (professor) *[http://www.bellrock.org.uk/stevensons/ The bell rock lighthouse and the Stevenson : the history of an old sea tower and a family of engineers ] *[http://eserver.org/thoreau/stevens1.html ''Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions'' - by Robert Louis Stevenson] 1850 births 1894 deaths Scottish novelists Horror writers Lallans poets British children's writers Scottish poets Scottish travel writers Scottish short story writers
What to do about gobbledygook near Treasure Island? --User:Daniel C. Boyer You can't just look up something in [http://promo.net/pg/index.html Project Gutenberg] and cut and paste the link. If you do, you end up with a dog's dinner like something this (broken into two lines for "readability"): http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120&full=yes
&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/ The wiki software can use it to link, but apparently wiki can't get rid of all the excess characters no matter how much you try to mark it up. However, if you edit the link down to this http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 wiki takes you to the same place but is clean. There are several forms available, use "edit this page" to look at the coding: * Enclose the bare URL in single brackets: **''Treasure Island'' Project Gutenberg text: [http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120] * Enclose URL in single brackets, but after the URL leave a space and add explanatory text before the closing bracket: ** Project Gutenberg text: [http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 ''Treasure Island''] * Simply run the URL in text without any brackets: **''Treasure Island'' from Project Gutenberg -- http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 The last form is not desirable, but since you see that kind of URL in the wikipedia all the time, I thought I should show it too. I always edit them out, usually to the second style, when I find them. User:Ortolan88 19:53 Jul 29, 2002 (PDT) The link to the book ''Kidnapped'' goes to the page about kidnappings. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == i disagree == there is no evidence to back this up... i researched that page and nothing came up. i also noticed that part of the address to korn tv ( a metal band website) there for the cite was probuble a fake. and beans are surved in many traditional scottish recipies. - annomous == i disagree == there is no evidence to back this up... i researched that page and nothing came up. i also noticed that part of the address to korn tv ( a metal band website) there for the cite was probuble a fake. and beans are surved in many traditional scottish recipies. - annomous www.korntv.com and www.korn.com and www.scottishrecipies.com
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Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894), was a novelist, poet, and travel writer. ==Life== Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson and grandson of Robert Stevenson, both successful lighthouse engineers, and Margaret Balfour. He studied at Edinburgh Academy in his youth. His parents were both very religious. Robert gave up the religion of his parents while studying at Edinburgh University, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him. Although ill with tuberculosis from childhood, Stevenson had a full life. He began his education as an engineer but, despite his family history, he showed little aptitude and soon switched to studying law. At the age of 18 he dropped the name Balfour and changed his middle name from Lewis to Louis (but retaining the original pronunciation); from this time on he began styling himself "RLS". He turned to the lawyer because of poor health, but he never practiced. He ended as a tribal leader (called by his tribe Tusitala) and plantation owner at his residence "Vailima" in Samoa, all this in addition to his literary career. Stevenson's novel of adventure, romance, and horror are of considerable psychological depth and have continued in popularity long after his death, both as books and as film. His wife Fanny (née Osbourne), whom he married in 1880, was a great support in his adventurous and arduous life. Stevenson made several trips to the Kingdom of Hawaii and became a good friend of David Kalakaua with whom Stevenson spent much time. Stevenson also became best friends with the king's niece Victoria Kaiulani, also of Scottish heritage. Since the tragic deaths of both Stevenson and Kaiulani, historians have debated the true nature of their relationship as to whether or not they had romantic feelings for each other. Because of the age difference, such stories have often been discredited. In 1888, Stevenson travelled to the island of Molokai just weeks after the death of Father Damien. He spent twelve days at the missionary priest's residence, Bishop Home at Kalawao. Stevenson taught the local girls to play croquet. When Congregationalist and Presbyterian ministers began to incite slander against Father Damien out of spite for his Catholicism, Stevenson wrote one of his most famous essays in defense of the life and work of the missionary priest. Stevenson died of a brain (cerebral) haemorrhage in Vailima in Samoa, aged 44. In his will, he bequeathed his birthday to a little girl who had been born on Christmas Day. ==Fiction== *''Treasure Island'' (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. It was originally called ''The Sea-Cook''. *''The Black Arrow'' (1884) A historical adventure set during the Wars of the Roses. It features an unusual subplot involving crossdressing. *''Kidnapped (book)'' (1886) is an historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck in the intrigues of Jacobitism troubles in Scotland. ''Catriona'' (1893) is a sequel, telling of Balfour's further adventures. *''The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (1886), a short novel about a Multiple personality disorder much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. *''The New Arabian Nights'' (1882), a collection of tales. *''The Body Snatcher'' (1885), another influential horror novel. *''The Wrong Box'', (1892), with Lloyd Osbourne, a comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966). A tontine is a group life-insurance policy in which the last survivor gets all the insurance. Both in the novel and in real life, it is an incentive to murder, and no longer legal in most countries. *''The Master of Ballantrae'' (1888), a masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland and America. *''Weir of Hermiston'' (1896), novel, unfinished at his death, considered to have promised great artistic growth. ==Poetry== *''A Child's Garden of Verses'' (1885), written for children but also popular with their parents. Includes such favorites as "My Shadow" and "The Lamplighter". Often thought to represent a positive reflection of the author's sickly childhood. ==Travel Writing== *''An Inland Voyage'' (1878), travels in a canoe from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris. *''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' (1879), travels in Cévennes (France), one of the first books to present hiking and Camping (recreation) as recreation. It tells of commissioning one of the first sleeping bags. *''Silverado Squatters'' (1883), convalescence trip to a rough mining camp in Silverado, California with his family to improve his health which had suffered during a long trip from Europe. ==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. ===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'' ===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 Joseph Conrad and Somerset 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 language. See [http://www.scotstext.org/makars/robert_louis_stevenson/ ScotsteXt] ==External links== *[http://robert-louis-stevenson.classic-literature.co.uk/ Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson] *Project Gutenberg e-texts of [http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a35 some of Robert Louis Stevenson's works] **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=120 Treasure Island]'' **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=43 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]'' **''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=464 In the South Seas]'' * Full text of ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/590 Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial]'' Alexander H. Japp * Full text of the biography ''[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/333 Robert Louis Stevenson]'' by Sir Walter Raleigh (professor) *[http://www.bellrock.org.uk/stevensons/ The bell rock lighthouse and the Stevenson : the history of an old sea tower and a family of engineers ] *[http://eserver.org/thoreau/stevens1.html ''Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions'' - by Robert Louis Stevenson] 1850 births 1894 deaths Scottish novelists Horror writers Lallans poets British children's writers Scottish poets Scottish travel writers Scottish short story writers
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What to do about gobbledygook near Treasure Island? --User:Daniel C. Boyer You can't just look up something in [http://promo.net/pg/index.html Project Gutenberg] and cut and paste the link. If you do, you end up with a dog's dinner like something this (broken into two lines for "readability"): http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120&full=yes
&ftpsite=ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/ The wiki software can use it to link, but apparently wiki can't get rid of all the excess characters no matter how much you try to mark it up. However, if you edit the link down to this http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 wiki takes you to the same place but is clean. There are several forms available, use "edit this page" to look at the coding: * Enclose the bare URL in single brackets: **''Treasure Island'' Project Gutenberg text: [http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120] * Enclose URL in single brackets, but after the URL leave a space and add explanatory text before the closing bracket: ** Project Gutenberg text: [http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 ''Treasure Island''] * Simply run the URL in text without any brackets: **''Treasure Island'' from Project Gutenberg -- http://promo.net/cgi-promo/pg/t9.cgi?entry=120 The last form is not desirable, but since you see that kind of URL in the wikipedia all the time, I thought I should show it too. I always edit them out, usually to the second style, when I find them. User:Ortolan88 19:53 Jul 29, 2002 (PDT) The link to the book ''Kidnapped'' goes to the page about kidnappings. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == his favorite food was beans == after spending a few years in belgim he descovered his favorite food was beans. many people were suprised at this considering the fact that it was not a traditional scottish recipe that he was trying. freom http://www.beans4stevenson.com/org45678-87978//korntv.gov == i disagree == there is no evidence to back this up... i researched that page and nothing came up. i also noticed that part of the address to korn tv ( a metal band website) there for the cite was probuble a fake. and beans are surved in many traditional scottish recipies. - annomous == i disagree == there is no evidence to back this up... i researched that page and nothing came up. i also noticed that part of the address to korn tv ( a metal band website) there for the cite was probuble a fake. and beans are surved in many traditional scottish recipies. - annomous www.korntv.com and www.korn.com and www.scottishrecipies.com
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