He died unexpectedly from a haemorrhage in 1894, he was born in Edinburgh in 1850; here he

leaving a collection of sketches of his travel in the studied first engineering and then law, but
Pacific, "In the South Seas ".
actually he preferred literature and indeed
he became a professional writer

he rebelled against his fater's Clavinist

religion and for a while led a Bohemian
life
Treasure Island is his first adventure novel:
a pirate story which brought the poet great
success

Stevenson's most famous novel is The strange

case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a tale of mystery
and horror inspired to Edgar Allan Poe In California he join Frances Osbourne,
Robert Louis Stevenson
which whom he married in 1880

The interest in the ethical problems present in

this novel (raised by the great progress of he suffered from tubercolosis all
science in the Victorian Age) is clearly visible through his life

He revealed himself as the true heir of Walter

Scott with three of his most popular Scottish
stories: Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantrae to ricover from this severe respiratory
and Catriona (the sequel to Kidnapped) illness, he went to the French Riviera

He spent his latter years in the Pacific, trying

to understand its inhabitants and customs; he
became a legend for them (they called him
"Tusitala", i.e. story teller)