Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artifacts and clothing from the travels of Robert Louis Stevenson. In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

The Reverend Christopher Colledge, who founded the Friends of Skerryvore, said: "The design of the sculpture depicting the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson recorded his first story before he was old enough to wield a pen. The future author of such stupendous tales as “Treasure Island” (1883) and “Kidnapped” (1886) was six years old ...

“Stevenson had from the beginning an idea of literary composition as a fine art.” A profile of the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other classics. Stevenson was one of the happy ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stevenson’s was one of those large, flowing talents of the kind that always seem to leave lots of spillage in the ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s Bournemouth years return through a new Alum Chine sculpture, linking Jekyll and Hyde, Skerryvore, ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the Oxford Companion to ...

A new sculpture to honour a literary giant has been installed in Bournemouth.

In her engrossing book “A Wilder Shore,” Camille Peri tells the story of R.L.S. and his American wife, Fanny Van de Grift. By Brooke Allen Brooke Allen has written about books for numerous ...

With the upcoming $71 million renovation of Portsmouth Square in San Francisco’s Chinatown neighborhood, a decision soon must be made as to whether to remove the monument to Scottish author Robert ...

THE term fin de siècle has come to be one of unmitigated reproach. Whatsoever things are weary, whatsoever things are corrupt, whatsoever things are (or used to be) unmentionable in polite society, ...