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
After a constantly ill life, Stevenson decided to go to the South Seas. He died there in Samoa in 1894. He left several volumes recording his south seas impressions including the novel In the South Seas (1896). He there also wrote romance that show he retained his literary power until the very end of his life. A great example of this is Catriona (1893) Arguably Treasure Island (1881) is probably the most important pirate story that has ever been written. "A classic among the classics". "One of scholastic's favorite books to promote". Treasure Island is a masterpieces of literature, and it is a basic weapon in teaching literature to children so that they get interested upon reading. This cruising in the United States gave him some on the most important rules for his work. The adventure of traveling, the curiosity for unimaginable places and the knowledge that told him that there is "No impossible place". He illustrated his travels and many of his experiences in many of his books. Some pieces of his work, are probably within the 100 most popular pieces of lit
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