Robert Louis Stevenson bibliography

Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a bibliography of works by Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894), a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

Novels

Title	Date	First publisher	Notes
Treasure Island	1883	Cassell and Company	Dedicated to Samuel Lloyd Osbourne. The story ran serially through Young Folks, from October 1881 to January 1882. Originally published under the title Treasure Island, or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, and credited to the pen-name "Captain George North". Reprinted: New York: Charles E. Merrill & Co., 1909 (with an introduction and notes by Franklin T. Baker) Boston: Ginn and Company, 1911 (with introduction and notes by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey) New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912 (with a preface by Fanny Stevenson).
Prince Otto	1885	Chatto & Windus	Prince Otto: A Romance, was originally published in Longman's Magazine, from April to October 1885. Stevenson's third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald. Reprinted: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910 (with a preface by Fanny Stevenson).
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	1886	Longmans, Green and Co.	A novella about a dual personality much depicted in plays and films, also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. Dedicated to Katherine de Mattos.
Kidnapped	1886	Cassell and Company	A historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck Stewart in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland.
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses	1888	Cassell and Company	Under the title The Black Arrow: a Tale of Tunstall Forest, by Captain George North, this story ran serially in Young Folks, from June 30 to October 20, 1883. An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses.
The Master of Ballantrae	1889	Cassell and Company	First published serially in Scribner's Magazine, with illustrations by William Hole, from November 1888 to October 1889. A masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland, America, and India.
The Wrong Box	1889	Longmans, Green and Co.	Co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966).
The Wrecker	1892	Cassell and Company	Originally issued serially, with illustrations by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf, in Scribner's Magazine, from August 1891 to July 1892.
Catriona	1893	Cassell and Company	A sequel to Kidnapped, Catriona was first issued under the title of David Balfour. Memoirs of his Adventures at Home and Abroad, in Atalanta, from December 1892 to September 1893.
The Ebb-Tide	1894	William Heinemann	Co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. The original title was The Pearl Fisher, but in February 1893 it was changed to The Schooner Farallone, and in May it was again altered to the title under which it was published. The Ebb-Tide was issued as a serial in To-Day, from November 1893 to January 1894.
Weir of Hermiston	1896	Chatto & Windus	Stevenson never finished the novel. The broken sentence at the end of book was dictated on the morning of Stevenson's death.
St. Ives	1897	Charles Scribner's Sons	St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England, another work left unfinished due to Stevenson's death, appeared originally in volume XXI of "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson," published in New York City. The novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth	2014	Humming Earth	Unfinished and unpublished during Stevenson's lifetime, The Hair Trunk is a utopian novel written in 1877. An annotated edition of the original manuscript, edited and introduced by Roger G. Swearingen, was finally published in 2014.

Travel writing

Title	Date	First publisher	Notes
An Inland Voyage	1878	C. Kegan Paul & Co.	In 1902 James Carrington wrote for The Book Buyer an account of a trip taken "Along the Route of Stevenson's Inland Voyage".
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes	1879	C. Kegan Paul & Co.	John Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title Travels with Charley. Reprinted: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912 (with a preface by Fanny Stevenson). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Silverado Squatters	1883	Chatto and Windus	Reprinted: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905 (with a preface by Fanny Stevenson).
Across the Plains	1892	Chatto and Windus	Dedicated to Paul Bourget.
The Amateur Emigrant	1895	Stone and Kimball	The book's full title is The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook.
In the South Seas	1896	Charles Scribner's Sons	Reprinted: London: Penguin, 1998 (with an introduction by Neil Rennie).
Essays on Travel	1905	Chatto and Windus

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External links

• RLS Website
• A Stevenson Library
• The Robert Louis Stevenson Archive