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Robert Louis Stevenson

ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソン　/　ろばーと・るいす・すてぃーゔんそん

Poet from United Kingdom

November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894　・　Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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My Take

Robert Louis Stevenson is, to me, one of literature's great proofs that a short life can be impossibly full. In barely forty-four years, often in poor health and constantly travelling, he produced both the pure adventure of Treasure Island and the unsettling moral split of Jekyll and Hyde. What moves me is the range: he could thrill a child and disturb an adult with equal mastery. A Child's Garden of Verses still lands harder on grown readers than it has any right to. I stand a little straighter near his shelf. A hundred and fifty years on, the storytelling has not aged a day.

Overview

Robert Louis Stevenson (Louis like Lewis; born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verses (1885).

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Robert Louis Stevenson
Name (Japanese): ロバート・ルイス・スティーヴンソン
Reading: ろばーと・るいす・すてぃーゔんそん
Born: November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Dog
Origin: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: poet / essayist / novelist / short story writer / children's writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: University of Edinburgh

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	Treasure Island	—
Notable work	Kidnapped	—
Notable work	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	—
Notable work	A Child's Garden of Verses	—
Notable work	Prince Otto	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

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