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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, George MacDonald, Andrew Lang, Nigel Tranter, Kenneth Grahame, Robert Michael Ballantyne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mairi Hedderwick, Alexander McCall Smith, Julie Bertagna, Marion Adams-Acton, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Geoffrey Bull, Jane Duncan, Harry Robinson, Eric Linklater, Aileen Paterson, Debi Gliori, Return to the Lost Planet, Patricia Leitch, Theresa Breslin, Angus MacVicar, Wes Magee, Nicholas Stuart Gray, Helen Bannerman, John Grant, William Gordon Stables, Sheila Stuart, Frances M Hendry, Keith Charters, Rod Campbell, Margaret Ryan, K M Grant, Lavinia Derwent, Fergus Hall, Pat Gerber. Excerpt: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." Daguerreotype portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson as a young childStevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on 13 November 1850, to Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife, the former Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829-1897). Lighthouse design was the family profession: Thomas's own father (Robert's grandfather) was the famous Robert Stevenson, and his maternal grandfather, Thomas Smith, and brothers Alan and David were also among those in the business....
