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Robert Louis Stevenson
1850–1894
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and died in 1894 in Samoa, in the Pacific, where he had gone to live out his last years. He was a tireless traveller, and that restlessness runs through almost everything he wrote.
Treasure Island, from 1883, began as a game with his stepson around a hand-drawn map and ended up fixing the image of pirates for good: the parrot, the wooden leg, the buried chest and the unforgettable Long John Silver. Only three years later, in 1886, he published Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a short tale about a respectable man and his double that became one of the most quoted fables about good and evil. The Body Snatcher, from 1884, is a horror story set in the Edinburgh of his childhood.
Adventure and shadow, clarity and mystery: Stevenson was a master of both.
Their books in our catalogue
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Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
A boy who works at his mother's inn stumbles on a map and soon finds himself sailing toward a distant island in search of a pirate's buried gold. Aboard the Hispaniola loyalties shift, and the charming one-legged cook Long John Silver proves as magnetic as he is unsettling. A brisk, salt-sprayed adventure that quietly asks what greed does to people.
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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
In fog-bound Victorian London, the steady lawyer Utterson grows uneasy about the bond between his old friend, the esteemed Dr Jekyll, and a violent, elusive man named Hyde. His inquiry winds through shuttered doors, odd wills and night-time streets. Short, taut and atmospheric, it turns a mystery into a haunting question about the hidden sides of respectable people.
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The Body SnatcherRobert Louis Stevenson
The Body SnatcherRobert Louis Stevenson
The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson
A chance meeting in a Scottish inn drags an old story back into the light: medical students, late-night dissections and corpses whose origins no one wants to question in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. Drawing on the grim real history behind the Burke and Hare murders, Stevenson builds dread with remarkable economy. A short, atmospheric tale of guilt and complicity, best read in one sitting.
