Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artifacts and clothing from the travels of Robert Louis Stevenson. In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Louis Stevenson recorded his first story before he was old enough to wield a pen. The future author of such stupendous tales as “Treasure Island” (1883) and “Kidnapped” (1886) was six years old ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stevenson’s was one of those large, flowing talents of the kind that always seem to leave lots of spillage in the ...

Robert A. Macfie Jr. (1854-1925), the manager and a principal owner of Kaua‘i’s Kilauea Sugar Co., visited fellow Scotsman and famous novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...

Come hear a captivating lecture about Robert Louis Stevenson up at the U’s Alumni House. The University of Utah College of Humanities is presenting “Imperial Ears: Robert Louis Stevenson in Oceana.” ...

In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a small Oceanside village called Monterey. He would be there only a short period, but the impact of that village would stay with him the ...

THE term fin de siècle has come to be one of unmitigated reproach. Whatsoever things are weary, whatsoever things are corrupt, whatsoever things are (or used to be) unmentionable in polite society, ...