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Andrew Roberts (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13
November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and
travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case
of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses.
Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from
Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book serious bronchial trouble for much of
his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in
defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary
circles, receiving encouragement from Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie
Stephen and W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided Napoleone
il Grande. Con e-book the model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.
In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at European and American
encroachment upon the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from
romance and adventure toward a darker realism. He died in his island
home in 1894.[1]
A celebrity in Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death,
though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018 he was
ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author
in the world.[2]
Stevenson was born at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, Scotland
on 13 November 1850 to Thomas Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book Stevenson
(1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer, and his wife Margaret
Isabella (born Balfour, 1829–1897). He was christened Robert Lewis
Balfour Stevenson. At about age 18, he changed the spelling of "Lewis"
to "Louis", and he dropped "Balfour" in 1873.[3][4]
Lighthouse design was the family's profession; Thomas's
father (Robert's grandfather) was Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book civil
engineer Robert Stevenson, and Thomas's brothers (Robert's uncles) Alan
and David were in the same field.[5] Thomas's maternal grandfather
Thomas Smith had been in the same profession. However, Robert's mother's
family were gentry, tracing their lineage back to Alexander Balfour who
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in the fifteenth century. His mother's father Lewis Balfour (1777–1860)
was a minister of the Church of Scotland at nearby
Colinton,[6] and
her siblings included physician George William Balfour and marine
engineer James Balfour. Stevenson spent the greater part of his boyhood
holidays in his maternal grandfather's house. "Now I Napoleone il
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minister," Stevenson wrote. "I must suppose, indeed, that he was fond of
preaching sermons, and so am I, though I never heard it maintained that
either of us loved to hear them."[7]
Lewis Balfour and his daughter both had weak chests, so
Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book they often needed to stay in warmer
climates for their health. Stevenson inherited a tendency to coughs and
fevers, exacerbated when the family moved to a damp, chilly house at 1
Inverleith Terrace in 1851.[8] The family moved again to the sunnier 17
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old, but the tendency to extreme sickness in winter remained with him
until he was 11. Illness was a recurrent feature of his adult life and
left him extraordinarily thin.[9]
Contemporaneous views were that he
had tuberculosis, but more recent views are that it was
bronchiectasis[10] or even sarcoidosis.[11]
Stevenson's Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book parents were
both devout Presbyterians, but the household was not strict in its
adherence to Calvinist principles. His nurse Alison Cunningham (known as
Cummy)[12] was more fervently religious. Her mix of Calvinism and folk
beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a
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But she also cared for him tenderly in illness, reading to him from John
Bunyan and the Bible as he lay sick in bed and telling tales of the
Covenanters. Stevenson recalled this time of sickness in "The Land of
Counterpane" in A Child's Garden of Verses (1885),[14] Napoleone il
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Stevenson was an only child, both strange-looking and
eccentric, and he found it hard to fit in when he was sent to a nearby
school at age 6, a problem repeated at age 11
when he went on to the
Edinburgh Academy; but he Napoleone il Grande. Con e-book mixed well in
lively games with his cousins in summer holidays at Colinton.[16] His
frequent illnesses often kept him away from his first school, so he was
taught for long stretches by private tutors. He was a late reader,
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e-book dictated stories to his mother and nurse,[17] and he
compulsively wrote stories throughout his childhood. His father was
proud of this interest; he had also written stories in his spare time
until his own father found them and told him to "give up
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