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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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  1. A nineteenth-century Scottish author. He spent the last few years of his life as a planter and storyteller on Samoa in the south Pacific Ocean. His works include The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Treasure Island, and A Child's Garden of Verses.


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Stevenson, Robert Louis, 13, 39, 44, 52, 53, 55, 56, 82, 89, 90, 93, 96, 99, 110, 137, 139, 144, 145, 149, 153, 155, 158, 161, 162, 169, 174, 179, 182, 188, 191, 192, 200.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders

Stevenson, Robert Louis, anecdote of, 305; foible of, 180.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 by Various

Stevenson, Robert Louis, on the English blackbird's songs, 45.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 31, 128, 170, 214, 221;    A Gossip on Romance, 128;    Treasure Island, 33.

From The Theory of the Theatre by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker