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Robert Louis Stevenson

Glenda Norquay

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English
Reaktion Books
01 June 2026
Series: Critical Lives
This concise biography offers a fresh portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson: frail Edinburgh child turned globe-trotting author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It charts his remarkable literary range

from fiction and poetry to essays and letters

crafted across three continents, often in poor health. Stevenson's adventurous life and memorable characters captured both popular imagination and critical praise. Drawing on new scholarship, the book explores his role as a literary innovator and cultural commentator, revealing how his work engaged with the anxieties of a rapidly changing world. At once celebrity, critic, and colonial observer, Stevenson emerges as a truly modern writer whose influence remains potent today. This book is essential reading for lovers of literature, history, and global storytelling.
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Imprint:   Reaktion Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 200mm,  Width: 130mm, 
ISBN:   9781836391685
ISBN 10:   1836391684
Series:   Critical Lives
Pages:   200
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Glenda Norquay is professor emerita of Scottish literature at Liverpool John Moores University. Her books on Stevenson include Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s.

Reviews for Robert Louis Stevenson

""Norquay narrates Stevenson's all-too-brief and eventful life with grace and verve and a fine eye for the telling detail. This is a learned book, but Norquay wears her learning lightly. Not only does she reveal Stevenson himself in all his multi-faceted complexity, she vividly conjures up the many disparate worlds he moved through, from Scotland to the South Seas.""--Stephen Arata, University of Virginia


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