Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artifacts and clothing from the travels of Robert Louis Stevenson. In the latter part of 1879, an unknown young writer lived in a ...

Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift should never have been together, but as Camille Peri writes in “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson” (Viking), their ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one ...

It's fitting that the promising debut from a descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson concerns a sunken treasure--in this case, a billion dollars in gold in the decaying hull of a cruiser torpedoed in ...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Kidnapped” appeared in 1886, the same year as “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and just three years after “Treasure Island.” According to the Oxford Companion to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stevenson’s was one of those large, flowing talents of the kind that always seem to leave lots of spillage in the ...

Come hear a captivating lecture about Robert Louis Stevenson up at the U’s Alumni House. The University of Utah College of Humanities is presenting “Imperial Ears: Robert Louis Stevenson in Oceana.” ...

Good morning. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short time in Bournemouth, where he developed an epistolary friendship with Henry James, was one of the most productive periods of his life. Andrew O’Hagan tells ...