As an 80 year old woman , books were given freely to me in my home. I remember well The garden book of verses. I loved, just loved it. I still have many of my early books. I have so many boxes of my books. Many in bookcases. I hope my decencentants will treasure them.😊 ,unreal

Masterfully narrated in a calm voice with proper pauses so the listeners can follow the subject so much better. Bring this speaker back again.

I remember reading Treasure Island at our cottage in Canada. It was one of the many books we inherited from the previous owner. What a story, it captivated me and that summer was spent acting out various scenes from the book. Ah to be young again. Hmm maybe I would just play video games and never pick up a book. Pity.

Lovely video, and so well told. After all these years, I still have my Stevenson book collection and I still read then avidly, as if for the first time! They never fail to restore some sense of possible adventure around the corner, even at my age!

treasure islands is one of my favorite childhood memories, thx for sharing this

What a lovely docu, delightful. Thank you to the makers, and thank you for uploading .Beautifully narrated.

Great video. I have read some of his work but really knew nothing about him. I must say, anyone venturing across the Pacific Ocean in a smallish sailboat was a very brave soul indeed.

Bless his parents for supporting and helping him.

R. L. S.... Those 3 initials at the bottom of a preface or an essay tell one immediately that they are in the best of company... Thanks for the biography.

I believe the novelist Graham Greene was a cousin of RLS. A very interesting documentary; thank you.

I am charmed and mesmerized. This is a very good documentary.

Wow melodious reading I have ever heard before since I got used to reading.

Thank you for this great documentary on Stevenson.

Stevenson got better as a writer as he aged. Weir of Hermiston makes you wonder what was next.

Treasure island is one of the great novels in the halls of history.

That was really interesting. I would have liked to be friends with Stevenson.

Robert Louis Stevenson brought the Scottish highlands to life for me via "Kidnapped!". His stories compelled me to go on a highland trek several years after reading his books. As a youngster I recall visiting a New England cottage where he once visited. At least, that is what the sign said. I was in absolute heaven when James MacArthur starred in the movie, "Kidnapped", my favourite actor playing the lead in a film featuring my favourite book!

Well done. Many thanks for sharing this.

An especially touching and inspiring doc. Thanks! 🤔 (from Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉

Oh I just love his writings! Thank you for making this video!!! He struggled with health but not for want. I wonder what inspired him to write Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...

A good documentary, but interupted by inappropriate adds as ususually. You Tube stop putting horrible adds in the middle of documentaries, movies and songs. It is highly annoying.

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Robert's father, Thomas Stevenson, deserves his own biography. He was way ahead of the curve on women's rights and picked and chose what "doctrines" to believe about religion. Intellectuals can easily become hot headed when confronted by simply minded fools who spread slogans for facts.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde anticipates 20th century psychoanalytic theory. RLS had such diverse skills, Treasure Island is many a boys first reading experience. . .

Thank you, your voice is music to the ears

"An Old Song" 1875 Uncollected Stevenson's first published fiction, in London, 1877. Anonymous. Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen. "When the Devil Was Well" 1875 Uncollected First published in 1921, by the Boston Bibliophile Society. "Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family" 1877 Uncollected Unfinished. Not truly a short-story. First published in 1982 by R. Swearingen. "Will o' the Mill" 1877 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in The Cornhill Magazine, 1878 "A Lodging for the Night" 1877 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in Temple Bar in 1877 "The Sire De Malétroits Door" 1877 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in Temple Bar in 1878 "The Suicide Club" 1878 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878. Three interconnected stories: "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts", "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk" and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab". Part of the Later-day Arabian Nights. "The Rajah's Diamond" 1878 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878. Four interconnected stories: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds" and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective". Part of the Later-day Arabian Nights. "Providence and the Guitar" 1878 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878 "The Story of a Lie" 1879 Tales and Fantasies, 1905 First published in New Quarterly Magazine in 1879. "The Pavilion on the Links" 1880 New Arabian Nights, 1882 First Published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1880. Told in 9 mini-chapters. Later included with a few suppressions in New Arabian Nights. Conan Doyle in 1890 called it the first English short story. "Thrawn Janet" 1881 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in The Cornhill Magazine, 1881 "The Body Snatcher" 1881 Tales and Fantasies, 1905 First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of The Pall Mall Gazette. "The Merry Men" 1882 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1882. Later included with changes in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. "Diogenes" 1882 Uncollected Two sketches: "Diogenes in London" and "Diogenes at the Savile Club". "The Treasure of Franchard" 1883 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in Longman's Magazine, 1883 "Markheim" 1884 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in the Broken Shaft. Unwin's Annual., 1885 "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" 1885 Standalone, 1886 Novella. Also referred to, more rarely, as a short novel.[126] "Olalla" 1885 The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published in The Court and Society Review, 1885 "The Great North Road" 1885 Uncollected Unfinished. First published in Illustrated London News/The Cosmopolitan, 1895 "The Story of a Recluse" 1885 Uncollected Unfinished. First published by the Boston Bibliophile Society, 1921. Later completed by Alasdair Gray. "The Misadventures of John Nicholson" 1887 Tales and Fantasies, 1905 Novella. With the subtitle: "A Christmas Story". First published in Yule Tide, 1887 "The Clockmaker" 1880s Uncollected One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection.[127] "The Scientific Ape" 1880s Uncollected One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection. "The Enchantress" 1889 Uncollected First published in the Fall 1989 issue of The Georgia Review. "Adventures of Henry Shovel" 1891 Uncollected Unfinished. First published in the Vailima Edition, Vol. 25. Published alongside three other short fragments: "The Owl", "Cannonmills" and "Mr Baskerville and His Ward". "The Bottle Imp" 1891 Island Nights' Entertainments, 1893 First published in Black and White, 1891 "The Beach of Falesá" 1892 Island Nights' Entertainments, 1893 Novella. First published in The Illustrated London News in 1892 "The Isle of Voices" 1892 Island Nights' Entertainments, 1893 First published in National Observer, 1883 "The Waif Woman" 1892 Uncollected Unfinished. First published in the Scribner's Magazine, 1914 "The Young Chevalier" 1893 Uncollected Unfinished. First published in the Edinburgh Edition, Vol. 26, 1897 "Heathercat" 1894 Uncollected Unfinished. First published in the Edinburgh Edition, Vol. 20, 1897

What a journey and as of then there’s a school in Samoa named after him 😍😍

You have a very beautiful voice 😃 💕

I liked this, the story of the wandering Scot whose heart is ever in Scotland.

Skull and crossbones motif on gravestones inspired the pirate flag.

Great documentary.

My favourite writer

I remember this 😇🌍☮️✝️🌄🤲🙌😎🤔

Really interesting

Forgotten ws the mention RLS's book of prayers penned while in Somoa. Also his return to faith. He died a young man. Do we know what he died from?

Love his works: The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth (1877) - unfinished and unpublished.[124] An annotated edition of the original manuscript, edited and introduced by Roger G. Swearingen, was published as The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza in August 2014. Treasure Island (1883) - his first major success, a tale of piracy, buried treasure and adventure; has been filmed frequently. In an 1881 letter to W. E. Henley, he provided the earliest-known title, "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys". Prince Otto (1885) - Stevenson's third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - a novella about a dual personality; much adapted in plays and films; also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a psychopathic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality. Kidnapped (1886) - a historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with Alan Breck Stewart in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland. The Black Arrow (1888) - a historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses. The Master of Ballantrae (1889) - a tale of revenge set in Scotland, America and India. The Wrong Box (1889) - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. A comic novel of a tontine; filmed in 1966 starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and Michael Caine. The Wrecker (1892) - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne and filmed in 1957 as a television series episode of Maverick starring James Garner and Jack Kelly, with full credit to Stevenson and Osbourne. Catriona (1893) - also known as David Balfour; a sequel to Kidnapped, telling of Balfour's further adventures. The Ebb-Tide (1894) - co-written with Lloyd Osbourne. Weir of Hermiston (1896) - unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; considered to have promised great artistic growth. St Ives (1897) - unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Short story collections Stevenson at 37 New Arabian Nights (1882) (11 stories) More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) (co-written with Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson) The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887) (6 stories) Island Nights' Entertainments (1893) (3 stories) Fables (1896) (20 stories: "The Persons of the Tale", "The Sinking Ship", "The Two Matches", "The Sick Man and the Fireman", "The Devil and the Innkeeper", "The Penitent", "The Yellow Paint", "The House of Eld", "The Four Reformers", "The Man and His Friend", "The Reader", "The Citizen and the Traveller", "The Distinguished Stranger", "The Carthorse and the Saddlehorse", "The Tadpole and the Frog", "Something in It", "Faith, Half Faith and No Faith at All", "The Touchstone", "The Poor Thing" and "The Song of the Morrow") Tales and Fantasies (1905) (3 stories) Short stories

This is nice

Can anybody tell me who wrote this script?

Awful background music spoiled it for me .. otherwise an interesting documentary .

I named my bicycle Modestine

It’s not an Estuary of the River Forth…. It’s the Firth of Forth. If only you could ask RLS…he would know how to use the Scots language and not substitute English terms

This is the worst documentary I have ever seen. Over 22 minutes before he even gets to writing? They won't get on with it.

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😅RLS was born on the day my daddy passed in 1992.💔🙏