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The versatility of Robert Louis Stevenson.
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19940601
Author:Bevan, Bryan
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on Nov.13, 1850 to Thomas Stevenson and Margaret Isabel Belfour. Father Thomas wanted Louis to pursue a lighthouse engineer's career in the spirit of family tradition. However, his poor health and his greater love for writing would not warrant such a career. Stevenson excelled as an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, travel writer and as an author of short stories.
THE imminent centenary of the death of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa in the South Seas on December 3, 1894 provides an opportunity to assess his literary work. He was a writer of ...
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