Robert Louis Stevenson

The world-wide recognized writer; the frontier breaker literary critic; the eternal heart navigator; and the unstoppable fiction, travel and romantic adventure writer, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, was born in the small town of Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13 in the year of 1850.

Robert Louis Stevenson, son of a prosperous engineer, studied law at Edinburgh University. Since he was very young, he focused on his literary skills, taking it to the very highest treasures of his life, his own mind. His love for literature, was so great, that he even started, at a very early age, to cut his links with his family so that he could focus totally to his work. He was expected to enter the family profession, he studied instead for Scottish Bar, but he never really practiced law.

He was not a blast-off writer, he had to climb his way up, and drag his reputation as high as possible, dealing with various difficulties, such as the obvious fact that he was not a healthy man. Despite his frequent physical collapses, mainly due to con

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Due to this lack of health, he had to spend huge amounts of time traveling in various places in a desperate look for health.

The most important pieces of his work are: Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. The most of his essays, were precisely about literary topics. A great example of this is Catriona (1893)

After a constantly ill life, Stevenson decided to go to the South Seas. The adventure of traveling, the curiosity for unimaginable places and the knowledge that told him that there is "No impossible place".

This cruising in the United States gave him some on the most important rules for his work. This lady, was an American divorcée, who he fell in love with and only 4 years later they married in 1880.

Arguably Treasure Island (1881) is probably the most important pirate story that has ever been written. He illustrated his travels and many of his experiences in many of his books. He there also wrote romance that show he retained his literary power until the very end of his life.

Some pieces of his work, are probably within the 100 most popular pieces of literature, surely the best example of this would be "The Treasure Island". One of his masterpieces, "The Treasure Island", written a short year after his marriage in 1881, was selected by hundreds of educational institutions and rated as "Simply a piece of literature that no child should grow up without reading".

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