Robert Louis Stevenson

Person · Open Library

Born

13 November 1850

Died

3 December 1894

Works

8299

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Writing · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 30 most translated authors in the world, just below Charles Dickens. He has been greatly admired by…

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1850

Active to

1894

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,137

Total plays

96,104

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins", as G. K. Chesterton put it. Some of his well known texts include Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886). <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Louis+Stevenson">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,770x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,539x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,818x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,782x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,488x

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan

1850–1894

Nationality

GB, WS, IT, GBR

Role / Field

Writer, Travel writers, Poets, Poetas, Novelists, Proza

Language

eng

Gender

Male

Recorded by 44 libraries

Quotes

• “To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
• “Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
• “Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.”
• “Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
• “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
• “In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.”

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