![]() ![]() Time in bed as a youth, making up stories before he could read. Prolific and innovative output for a writer who died so young.įrom tuberculosis since his childhood in Edinburgh and spent much of his Many of today's "modern classics" are based on elementsįirst popularized by Robert Louis Stevenson. ![]() Of the structures that have gone into making great popular fiction ever Generations of young and old thrilled to his tales, but he laid down many Too bad really, because Stevenson wrote some wonderful stuff. To a lesser degree his Treasure Island lives on as the archetypal pirate story, helped by repeated movie treatments. Of all Stevenson's once immensely popular novels, only Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde seems poised to remain a classic for eternity, mainly as a horror story. Now in the era of Harry Potter, I suspect the exploits of lads from centuries ago are not exactly engrossing for adolescents. Do people still grow up reading Robert Louis Stevenson? His adventures were staples of my own youth because my parents had some of his old books around the house, but I recall even then my reading friends were into more current books in which long-past British and Scottish customs and expressions did not have to be puzzled out. ![]()
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