Google Makes a Doodle of Robert Louis Stevensons Birthday
Google is celebrating the birthday of the famous novelist, today is the 160th anniversary of his birth and the famous google has gone all treasure island on us.
Born in Scotland in 1850 he spent most of his short life travelling the world eventually settling in Samoa with his wife.
He has left a great literary legacy. His most famous works are, of course, Treasure Island and Dr. Jakyll and Mr. Hyde.
Thanks to http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/ for the following list. A more comprehensive bibliography is available on their website.
A Short List of Works by Decade
1870s
* An Inland Voyage (1878)
* Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878)
* Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
* “The Story of a Lie” (1879)
1880s
* Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
* Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
* New Arabian Nights (1882)
* Treasure Island (1883)
* The Silverado Squatters (1884)
* “The Body Snatcher” (1884)
* A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)
* More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (with Fanny Stevenson, 1885)
* Prince Otto (1885)
* Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
* Kidnapped (1886)
* The Merry Men (1887)
* Memories and Portraits (1887)
* “The Misadventures of John Nicholson” (1887)
* Underwoods (1887)
* The Black Arrow (1888)
* Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1888)
* The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
* The Wrong Box (with Lloyd, 1889)
1890s
* Ballads (1890)
* Father Damien (1890)
* A Footnote to History (1892)
* Three Plays (1892)
* The Wrecker (with Lloyd, 1892)
* Across the Plains (1892)
* Island Nights’ Entertainments (1893)
* Catriona (1893)
* The Ebb-Tide (with Lloyd, 1894)
Posthumous Works
* The Amateur Emigrant (1895)
* Songs of Travel and other Verses (1895)
* Fables (1896)
* Weir of Hermiston (1896)
* In the South Seas (1896)
* St. Ives (1898)
* Letters (1898)
A Short List of Works by Decade
1870s
- An Inland Voyage (1878)
- Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878)
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
- “The Story of a Lie” (1879)
1880s
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
- Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
- New Arabian Nights (1882)
- Treasure Island (1883)
- The Silverado Squatters (1884)
- “The Body Snatcher” (1884)
- A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885)
- More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (with Fanny Stevenson, 1885)
- Prince Otto (1885)
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
- Kidnapped (1886)
- The Merry Men (1887)
- Memories and Portraits (1887)
- “The Misadventures of John Nicholson” (1887)
- Underwoods (1887)
- The Black Arrow (1888)
- Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (1888)
- The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
- The Wrong Box (with Lloyd, 1889)
1890s
- Ballads (1890)
- Father Damien (1890)
- A Footnote to History (1892)
- Three Plays (1892)
- The Wrecker (with Lloyd, 1892)
- Across the Plains (1892)
- Island Nights’ Entertainments (1893)
- Catriona (1893)
- The Ebb-Tide (with Lloyd, 1894)
Posthumous Works
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