Robert Louis Stevenson island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area. Literary works Musical works About Websites Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are "Treasure Island", "Kidnapped", "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and "A Child's Garden of Verses". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by
British literature "The Prisoner of Zenda" (1894). Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) also wrote works in this genre, including "Kidnapped" (1886), an historical novel set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and "Treasure Island" (1883), the classic pirate adventure. Wilkie Collins' epistolary novel "The Moonstone" (1868) is generally considered the first detective novel in the English language, and soon after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began his Sherlock Holmes series about a London-based "consulting detective". Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, from 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. H. G. Wells's (1866–1946) writing