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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. “If a man love the labour of his trade, apart from any suggestion — Robert Louis Stevenson
By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
of success or fame, the gods have called him.”
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Robert Louis Stevenson credits at Internet Movie Database
Robert Louis Stevenson entry at Wikipedia
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Novels of R.L. Stevenson
"Treasure Island" [1893 novel]
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"Treasure Island" [M.G.M. Aug 1934] Directed by Victor Fleming; based on the R.L.S. novel {above}; starring Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper. Lionel Barrymore, Otto Kruger. Lewis Stone, Nigel Bruce & Charles 'Chic' Sale Warner color VHS [11/89] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Treasure Island" [Disney July 1950] Directed by Byron Haskin; based on the R.L.S. novel {below}; starring Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea. Finlay Currie, Geoffrey Keen & Geoffrey Wilkinson Disney color VHS [3/97] for $19.99 Disney color DVD [3/97] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Long John Silver: Return to Treasure Island" [TI/DCA Dec 1954 sequel] Directed by Byron Haskin; starring Robert Newton, Kit Taylor, Lloyd Berrell & Rod Taylor VCI color CinemaScope DVD [6/2006] for $9.99 Direct Source color VHS [6/99] for $3.99 Celebrity color VHS [1/87] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Treasure Island" [National General Oct 1972]
Directed by John Hough; based on the R.L.S. novel {above}; co-written by Wolf Mankowitz; co-written by & starring Orson Welles [1915-85] {as Long John Silver}; also starring Kim Burfield, Walter Slezak, Rik Battaglia, [blacklistee] Lionel Stander, Ángel del Pozo, Jean Lefebvre & Maria Rohm Warner color VHS [9/98] out of prodn/rare full credits from IMDb |
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"Muppet Treasure Island" [Disney Dec 1996]
Disney Home Video color DVD [9/2003] for $11.24 Disney Home Video color VHS [6/2002] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 "Muppet Treasure Island Movie Storybook" by Cathy East Dubowski Grosset & Dunlap 9¼x10½ hardcover [2/96] out of print/used |
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animated "Treasure Island" feature [Italy 1997]
Directed by Dino Athanassiou Image Ent. color DVD [6/99] for $22.49 full credits from IMDb |
"The Black Arrow: A Tale of The Two Roses" [1883]
"Prince Otto" (1885) set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald
"The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" [1886 novella]
"Kidnapped" [1886]
"The Master of Ballantrae" [1889] set in Scotland, America & India
"The Wrong Box" [1889] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
A comic novel of a tontine, also filmed (1966)
"The Wrecker" [1892] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
"Catriona" [1893] a sequel to "Kidnapped", also known as "David Balfour"
"The Ebb Tide" [1894] co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
"Weir of Hermiston" [1896] unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
"St. Ives: Being The Adventures of A French Prisoner In England" [1897]
unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; novel completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Short Stories & Poetry
"New Arabian Nights" [1882]
"Dynamiter" [stories 1885] co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
"A Child's Garden of Verses" [poems 1885]
"The Merry Men and Other Tales & Fables" [stories 1887]
""Underwoods" [poems in both English and Scots; 1887]
"Ballads" [1891]
"Island Nights' Entertainments" aka "South Sea Tales" [stories 1893]
"Songs of Travel and Other Verses" [poems 1896]
Non-Fictions &s Travels Writing
"An Inland Voyage (1878)
A journey with a friend in a canoe from Antwerp, Belgium to Pontoise, just north of Paris
"Travels With A Donkey In The Cévennes" [1879]
one of the first books to present hiking & camping as recreational activities
"Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers" [1881]
"Familiar Studies of Men and Books" [1882]
"The Silverado Squatters" [1883] see below
"Memories and Portraits" [essays 1887]
"Father Damien: An Open Letter To The Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu" [1890]
"A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble In Samoa" [1892]
"Three Plays" by W.E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson [London: Nutt 1892]
"Across The Plains" [1892] see below
"Vailima Letters" [1895]
"The Amateur Emigrant" [1895] see below
"In The South Seas" [articles & essays 1896 & 1912]
"Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson To His Family & Friends"
[London 1899] Edited by S. Colvin
"The New Lighthouse On The Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire" [1995]
based on an 1872 manuscript edited by R.G. Swearingen
Froms Europes Tos California
Stevenson left Europe in 1876 to follow after Fanny; he arrived in Monterey, California near death
and was nursed back to health by 1879; they married in May 1880 and spent the summer in a cabin
on Mount Saint Helena; they sailed in August from New York to return to Britain.
"The Amateur Emigrant" [written 1879–80, published 1895]
Stevenson's account of the first leg of his journey to California, by ship from Europe to New York
"Across The Plains" [written 1879–80, published 1892]
The second leg of Stevenson's journey, by train from New York to California
"The Silverado Squatters" [1883]
Stevenson's unconventional honeymoon trip with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd,
to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley, California
"From The Clyde To California: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Emigrant Journey" [1985] by Andrew Noble
Workss Abouts Roberts Louiss Stevenson
There are over 200 published biographies of Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Lighthouse Stevensons" by Bella Bathurst
"Stevenson Under The Palm Trees" by Aleberto? Manguel from canongate USA 12/M4?
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