![]() Hyde, and the unfinished Weir of Hermiston), a classic children's book of poems ( A Child's Garden of Verses), and an exceptional travel book ( Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes). Yet Stevenson, born in Scotland in 1850, and killed by a stroke in 1894 as he made a salad for dinner at his house in Samoa, also wrote a timeless classic of young-adult fiction ( Treasure Island), two and a half other novels of the first rank ( Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. ![]() What might have been his crowning masterpiece was never finished only a scrap of his most ambitious project was ever published and he died young, just as his work was sharpening and deepening in startling ways. ![]() ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson was a ham-handed playwright, a less than minor poet, a fitful journalist, and the author of several awful novels. ![]()
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