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Aktuell Kino Musik Bestseller ... Gutenberg-DE GutenbergDEGutenbergDE Autoren A - Z Startseite Info CD-ROM ... Druckversion Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (eigentlich Robert Levis Balfour Stevenson) wurde am 13.11.1850 in Edinburgh geboren. Der Vater war Leuchtturmbaumeister, das wollte auch der Sohn werden. Er hatte jedoch ein Lungenleiden und studierte daher Jura von 1871-1875. Er arbeitete jedoch nicht als Rechtsanwalt sondern wurde freier Schriftsteller, vergeblich ein Klima suchend, das sein Lungenleiden heilte. Er starb am 3.12.1894 im Haus Vailima bei Apia (Westsamoa). Werke u.a.: 1882 (dt. 1897) Die Schatzinsel 1886 (dt. 1889) Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekill und Herrn Hyde Im Projekt Gutenberg-DE vorhanden: Autoren A-Z Startseite Info CD-ROM ... Druckversion PANORAMA KULTUR WISSENSCHAFT Home Politik ... Mediadaten document.AutorenPulldown.Auswahl.options[0].selected = true;

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Accueil Index Catégories Dossiers ... Imprimer Robert Louis Stevenson Biographie en résumé Site de monsieur Claude Marc Bourget Le plus illustre des romanciers écossais avec Walter Scott, son aîné de quelques générations, lui-même enfant d'Édimbourg et que rencontra son aïeul paternel. Triomphal auteur de L'Île au trésor et de Dr Jekill et M. Hyde , Robert Louis Stevenson publia en outre, parmi une oeuvre considérable et diverse, des romans moins acclamés, bien qu'aussi dignes d'admiration. Viennent au premier rang de cette brillante escorte le Maître de Ballantrae , le Roman du prince Othon et les Aventures de David Balfour Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Autres photos Vie et oeuvre «J'aime les sabliers, les planisphères, la typographie du XVIII e , le goût du café et la prose de Stevenson», a dit Borges, grand seigneur des raccourcis et de la perspective. Stevenson, en effet, possède une phrase toujours en route vers le coeur, les sens et l'esprit tout ensemble. Son style, que la traduction ne défait pas à tous coups, imprègne l'oreille et sonne l'âme. Longtemps le clair et naturel écho de sa voix résonne sur les voûtes du souvenir et du ciel intérieur. D'une complexion fort maladive, qui servit de fondement ou de prétexte à d'incessantes émigrations, Stevenson a payé cher, pourtant, chaque ligne de son oeuvre. À peine a-t-il pu dépasser sa quarante-quatrième année, même aéré par les pleins espaces du Pacifique Sud, avant-dernière étape de sa liberté. «L'histoire de Stevenson, a dit Chesterton, est celle d'un homme hanté par un air, cherchant toujours les notes brisées d'une mélodie perdue, que lui-même appelait le chant du rossignol dévoreur de temps.»

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A B C D ... Non-alphabetic Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis: Previous Next Stevenson, Robert Louis Contributions To The History Of Fife - Random Memories Scribner's Magazine , vol. 4, issue 4 (October, 1888). Stevenson, Robert Louis Early In The Spring Scribner's Magazine , vol. 13, issue 5 (May, 1893). Stevenson, Robert Louis The Education Of An Engineer - More Random Memories Scribner's Magazine , vol. 4, issue 5 (November, 1888). Stevenson, Robert Louis Epilogue To "An Island Voyage" Scribner's Magazine , vol. 4, issue 2 (August, 1888). Stevenson, Robert Louis The House Of Tembinoka Scribner's Magazine , vol. 8, issue 1 (July, 1890). Stevenson, Robert Louis The Lantern-Bearers Scribner's Magazine , vol. 3, issue 2 (February, 1888). Stevenson, Robert Louis Letter To A Young Gentleman Who Proposes To Embrace The Career Of Art Scribner's Magazine , vol. 4, issue 3 (September, 1888). Stevenson, Robert Louis The Manse; A Fragment Scribner's Magazine , vol. 1, issue 5 (May, 1887). Stevenson, Robert Louis The Master Of Ballantrae. IX. Scribner's Magazine , vol. 6, issue 1 (July, 1889).

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Robert-Louis Stevenson translate Pour imprimer Ses parents et grands parents sont ingénieurs constructeurs de phares. Toutefois c'est une nurse surnommée Cummy qui va l'élever. Celle que Stevenson appela plus tard "l'ange de ma vie d'enfant" était un véritable trésor de contes, de poêmes et de vielles balades écossaises. C'est dans cette atmosphère et celle de la bibliothèque de son père, chargée de livres d'aventures, que Robert-Louis évolue et prend peu à peu le goût de la vie sédentaire et le désir de "dormir au pied des arbres et de voir chaque jour le soleil se lever sur un nouvel horizon". Mais avant celà, il lui fallait suporter l'école. Sa santé fragile et la discipline de l'époque ne lui conviennent guère, il souffre de la poitrine et le climat écossait ne lui est pas profitable. C'est alors qu'il a bientôt 13 ans que Robert-Louis a la chance d'effectuer un un séjour sur la Côte d'Azur. Déjà à ce moment, il rêve d'être écrivain et, 3 ans plus tard, il publie aux frais de son père un premier roman de 22 pages: "La Révolte du Pentland". qu'il surnomme "Modestine" et s'équipe pour le voyage d'un pistolet et d'un couteau de poche, une lampe à alcool, une lanterne, des chandelles, une casserole, une corde, et comme vivres du chocolat et des boîtes de mortadelles.

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Digitale tekster Robert Louis Stevenson - hvem var han ? av Lars Egeland Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did I live and gladly die And I laid me down with a will This be the verse you grave for me Here he lies where he longed to be Home is the sailor, home from the sea And the hunter home from the hill. Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow farer, true through life, Heart whole and soul free, the August Father gave to me. toppen igitale tekster klassiske tekster

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Home / News Quotes of the Day Motivational Author Index ... Contact Us Also visit: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish author [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 9 of 9 total Read the works of Robert Louis Stevenson online at The Literature Page A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. Robert Louis Stevenson Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson - More quotations on: Courage Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson - More quotations on: Politics The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson - More quotations on: Silence To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson - More quotations on: Freedom To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

71. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS stevenson, robert louis. robert louis Balfour stevenson er født den 13. november 1850 i Edinburg og døde den 3. december 1894 i Vailima, Samoa, England. http://www.bibliografi.dk/stevenson_robert_louis.htm

A B C D ... Z STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson er født den 13. november 1850 i Edinburg og døde den 3. december 1894 i Vailima, Samoa, England. "Skatteøen" ("Treasure Island") "Kaptajn Flints arv" ; S. Thomsen : 1887 "Sydhavseventyr" ; A. Christiansen : 1900 "Sydhavseventyr" ; John Martin : 1914, 1920 "Skatteøen eller Kaptajn Flints arv" ; E: Harck, 2 bind : 1909(2) "Skatteøen eller Kaptajn Flints arv" ; John Martin : 1916, 1920, 1935, 1958(n) "Treasure Island" , engelsk udg. ; Gyldendal, 3. udg. : 1929 "Treasure Island" , engelsk udg. ; Gyldendal, 4. udg. : 1933 "Skatteøen : et sydhavseventyr" ; Carit Andersen (Verdenslitteraturens Mesterromaner) : 1944 "Treasure Island" , engelsk udg. ; Grafisk (Easy Readers, 7) : 1945 Rosenkilde og Bagger, illustreret af Det Danske Forlag, ny udg., %bogh. : 1948 Samlerens Perlebøger, 5 : 1950(1), 1953(2) "Kaptajn Flints arv eller skatteøen" ; Aamodt : 1950(1), 1953(2) "Treasure Island" , engelsk udg. ; Grafisk (Easy Readers), 2nd ed. : 1954 Gads Klassikere : 1955 Samleren : 1955 "Treasure Island" , engelsk udg. ; Grafisk (Easy Readers), 3nd ed : 1958

72. Stevenson, Robert Louis encyclopediaEncyclopedia stevenson, robert louis. stevenson, robert louis, 1850–94, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0846710.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis, , Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, b. Edinburgh. Handicapped from youth by delicate health, he struggled all his life against tuberculosis. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1875, but he never practiced. At an early age he had begun to write, and gradually he devoted himself to literature. The essays that were later published as Virginibus Puerisque (1881) and Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882) began to appear in the Cornhill Magazine New Arabian Nights An Inland Voyage (1878), an account of a canoe trip in Belgium and France, was his first published book. Henley he wrote four plays, only moderately successful. His first popular books were Treasure Island (1883), a swashbuckling adventure story of a search for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, and the fantasy

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GÄSTEBUCH ERSATZGÄSTE BUCH. Wir kennen ihn als den Autoren der Schatzinsel, doch er hat auch eines der bedeutensten Bücher der viktorianischen Schauerliteratur geschrieben: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde! ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Robert Louis Stevenson wurde 1850 in Edinburgh geboren . Schon in jungen Jahren litt er an seiner schwächlichen Gesundheit. In der Firma der Familie Stevenson war nicht möglich. Er war nicht robust genug. So studierte er Jura an der Universität in Edinburgh, widmete sich aber zunehmend der Schriftstellerei. Anfangs schrieb er Essays und Reisebeschreibungen. 1876 verliebte er sich in die Amerikanerin Mrs. Osborne heiratete sie und folgte ihr nach Amerika. Die beschwerliche Reise nach Kalifornien hinterließ ihre Spuren in Roberts Gesundheit. Trotzdem folgten viele weitere Reisen. Treasure Island wurde in Schottland begonnen und 1882 in Davos abgeschlossen. Doch der wirkliche Erfolg kam 1886 mit “The strange Case of Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde. 40 000 verkaufte Exemplare in nur 6 Monaten brachten die so ersehnte finanzielle Freiheit. Die Stevensons ließen eine Reise durch die Vereinigten Staaten folgen, worauf eine Südseereise folgte. Auf der Insel Opolu, eine damals deutsche Kolonie, die zu Samoa gehörte, bauten sie ein Haus. Als R.L.S.

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STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS (1850-1894) a web guide to Robert Louis Stevenson from literaryhistory.com main page 19th century authors 20th century authors 20th century poetry General Articles on Stevenson http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/16/jun98/downing.htm A New Criterion review of Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Ernest Mehew. Reviewed by Ben Downing. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.02.x.html Good, long article on teaching the novels of Stevenson, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. http://www.bartleby.com/224/0323.html A chapter on Stevenson from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes http://www.twbooks.co.uk/cwa/knightonstevenson.html http://vp.engl.wvu.edu/fall97/colley.htm Scholarly article on the role of nostalgia as an organizing force for the imagination and memory in Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses . In Victorian Poetry, Volume 35, no. 3, Fall 1997, "Writing Towards Home": The Landscape of A Child's Garden of Verses, by Ann C. Colley. Internet Texts and Web Sites http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/victorians/victorians.shtml

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OCEANIA THE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON COLLECTION Robert Louis Stevenson was the most famous palagi (white man) to find his way to Samoa where he is held dearly in Samoan memories. Stevenson wrote the following poignant elegy, engraved on one face of his tomb which ends with the following lines: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. Robert Louis Stevenson's tomb lies atop Mount Vaea on Upolu, Samoa. During the late 19th century, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled extensively throughout the islands of the Pacific. He made a photographic record of his journeys which have encapsulated life in the Pacific Islands at this time. The images below are of some of the people that Stevenson met during his journey. Left : King Mataafa of Samoa. Right : King Mataafa's rival, Tamasese. Left : King Mataafa's natural daughter. Right : Queen Vaekehu and her adopted daughter. Princess Ka'iulani of Hawaii. For more information on Princess Ka'iulani, click here Gilbertese (Kiribati) woman preparing poi-poi (babai).

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HOME AUTHOR INDEX TITLE INDEX CATEGORY INDEX ... LINKS Stevenson, Robert Louis Biography Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, poet, and author of fiction and travel books, known especially for his novels of adventure. Stevenson's characters often prefer unknown hazards to everyday life of the Victorian society. His most famous study of the abysmal depths of personality is THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1886). Many of Stevenson's stories are set in colorful locations, they have also horror and supernatural elements. Arguing against realism, Stevenson underlined the "nameless longings of the reader", the desire for experience. "But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies." (from 'Aes Triplex') The Edinburgh University Magazine (1871) and The Portofolio In a attempt to improve his health, Stevenson travelled on the Continent and in the Scottish Highland. However, traveling on boats was not always easy for him. In letter, written on his journey across the Atlantic in 1879, he complained: "I have a strange, rather horrible, sense of the sea before me, and can see no further into future. I can say honestly I have at this moment neither a regret, a hope, a fear or an inclination; except a mild one for a bottle of good wine which I resist". Later Stevenson spent much time in warmer countries. These experiences provided much material for his writings.

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