Author of Audiobooks - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange...
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always fun. (Summary by Arctura)...
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
Island Nights' Entertainments - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A marvelous depiction of two sides of South Sea Islands' life through three separate tales. One, the experience of the incoming British keen to live free and exploit the innocent; the other the supernatural as perceived by Stevenson working in the...
Winter (Stevenson) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Winter (Stevenson) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Nature
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 22nd, 2009....
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Travel & Geography
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He and a friend traveled by canoe...
The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 2012. The Vagabond appeared in Stevenson's Songs of Travel and Other Verses, which was published after his...
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three gentlemen of little means and no occupation meet in the Bohemian Cigar Divan, a tobacco shop with couches to...
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
Olalla - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
"Olalla" was a "shilling shocker" written for the Christmas season in 1885, just before the publication of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The nameless protagonist of this Gothic tale, a wounded soldier, goes to the Spanish countryside to...
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Ebb-Tide - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a...
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Amateur Emigrant - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his future wife in her native California. Leaving by ship from Glasgow, Scotland, he determined to travel in steerage class to see how the working classes fared. At the last minute he was...
New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
New Arabian Nights is a collection of short stories which include Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest fiction as well as those considered his best work in the genre. The first and longest story stars Prince Florizel of Bohemia who appears in the later...
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Master of Ballantrae - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His younger brother, sweet-tempered...
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity...
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite abruptly. The reason is Stevenson planned on writing a sequel. Catriona takes up the story of David Balfour on the same day Kidnapped ends. He must now try to clear his name and the...
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of My Shadow, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's famous poem concerns a child's shadow, and it's antics. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th, 2014. Summary by Sweet Pea....
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 4 - Dramatic Reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason. And yet, the perpetrator cannot be found. The crimes happen overnight, but in the...
Not Yet my Soul - Robert Louis Stevenson
Not Yet my Soul - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Not Yet my Soul by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 β 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet,...
A Child's Garden of Verses (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry
A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poems for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions....
Foreign Lands - Robert Louis Stevenson
Foreign Lands - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 22nd, 2007....
Summer Sun - Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer Sun - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 22nd, 2008....
The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevensonβs The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is the extraordinary tale of a boy, Jim Hawkins, who comes into possession of Captain Flint's treasure map, after a buccaneer takes a room at his inn and later dies. The map spreads its ill luck to all who know of it.A local squire outfits a...
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is a tale noted for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the...
Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson
Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires, from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses. This was the weekly poetry project for October 18-24, 2015....
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 5) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This story deals with the obvious fact that we humans are split, dual. We have urges to do the 'right' thing, to be honorable and wise, but we also frequently fail to follow these better instincts and follow instead urges to do dishonorable, evil...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something sinister. Utterson's concern for his friend...
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Nautical & Marine Fiction
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams what adventures will follow in the man's wake. Soon, the once-peaceful inn is threatened by pirates, Jim's father is laid...
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
βExtreme busynessβ¦is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.βWhat comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very...
Treasure Island (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to piratesβ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course)...
Where Go the Boats - Robert Louis Stevenson
Where Go the Boats - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Where Go the Boats is a short poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a Scottish author famous for writing Treasure Island. He also wrote many poems, including this one, which was published in A Child's Garden of Verses.(Summary by Sweet Pea)Some...
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws inTunstall Forest organized...
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where...
The Wind - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wind - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 2nd, 2008....
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge),...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey,...
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves...
Picture-Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson
Picture-Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Picture-Books In Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. ------ Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and travel writer, most noted for...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer Utterson is driven to investigate Edward Hyde, the unlikely protΓ©gΓ© of his friend Dr Henry Jekyll,...
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern childhood, illness, play, and solitude. - Summary by Roma Singh...