Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, and travel writer; best known for his first full-length adventure novel, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886; following the example of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and terror), and Kidnapped (1886).
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1850). His poor respiratory health led him to travel a great deal, which influenced his writings. Seeking just the right climate, he ended up in Vailima, Samoa, where he died of an unexpected hemorrhage in 1894.
He was the only son of a successful civil engineer, who specialized in lighthouses. To please his father, he first studied engineering then changed to law at Edinburgh University, but his true love was literature.
He rebelled against his father's Calvinist religion.
His Scottish stories reveal him as the heir of Sir Walter Scott (1771, Edinburgh, Scotland—died 1832 Scotland), a Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer who is considered the inventor of the historical novel (Romantic Period).
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