Saturday, November 13, 2010

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Novels

  • Treasure Island (1883) His first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure, has been filmed frequently. He originally entitled it The Sea Cook but an editor changed it.
  • The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1883) An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses.
  • Prince Otto (1885) Stevenson’s third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald.
  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), 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.
  • Kidnapped (1886) is a historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland.
  • The Master of Ballantrae (1889), a masterful tale of revenge, set in Scotland, America, and India.
  • The Wrong Box (1889); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966).
  • The Wrecker (1892); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
  • Catriona (1893), also known as David Balfour, is a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour's further adventures.
  • The Ebb-Tide (1894); co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
  • Weir of Hermiston (1896). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, considered to have promised great artistic growth.
  • St. Ives: being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897). Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Short story collections

  • New Arabian Nights (1882)
  • More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
  • The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
  • Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) (1893)
  • Fables (1896)