He thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates ( Treasure Island ) and monsters ( The Strange Case of Dr.
His travels, illnesses, creative struggles, volatile relationships, and titanic quarrels were the stuff of legend..
He was both engineer and aesthete, Covenanter and atheist, dutiful son and reckless lover.
But the short Life of writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) was as adventurous as almost anything in his fiction.
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He thrilled readers the world over with breathtaking tales of pirates ( Treasure Island ) and monsters ( The Strange Case of Dr