Robert Louis Stevenson/Bibliography

biography and works on The Literature Network

The Pentland Rising (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1866).

An Appeal to the Clergy (Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1875).

An Inland Voyage (London: Kegan Paul, 1878; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883).

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, with Etchings (London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1879; New York: Macmillan, 1889).

Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: Kegan Paul, 1881; New York: Collier, 1881).

Familiar Studies of Men and Books (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882; New York: Dodd, Mead, 1887).

The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883; New York: Munro, 1884).

Treasure Island (London: Cassell, 1883; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884).

A Child's Garden of Verses (London: Longmans, Green, 1885; New York: Scribners, 1885).

More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, by Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (London: Longmans, Green, 1885; New York: Holt, 1885).

Macaire (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1885).

Prince Otto: A Romance (London: Chatto & Windus, 1885; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886).

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (London: Longmans, Green, 1886; New York: Scribners, 1886).

Kidnapped (London: Cassell, 1886; New York: Scribners, 1886).

Some College Memories (Edinburgh: University Union Committee, 1886; New York: Mansfield & Wessels, 1899).

The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; New York: Scribners, 1887).

Underwoods (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; New York: Scribners, 1887).

Memories and Portraits (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; New York: Scribners, 1887).

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (London & New York: Longmans, Green, 1887).

The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story (New York: Lovell, 1887).

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (London: Cassell, 1888; New York: Scribners, 1888).

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (London: Cassell, 1889; New York: Scribners, 1889).

The Wrong Box, by Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (London: Longmans, Green, 1889; New York: Scribners, 1889).

Ballads (London: Chatto & Windus, 1890; New York: Scribners, 1890).

Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu (London: Chatto & Windus, 1890; Portland, Maine: Mosher, 1897).

Across the Plains, With Other Memories and Essays (London: Chatto & Windus, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892).

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (London: Cassell, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892).

Three Plays: Deacon Brodie, Beau Austin, Admiral Guinea, by Stevenson and W. E. Henley (London: Nutt, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892).

The Wrecker, by Stevenson and Osbourne (London: Cassell, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892).

Island Nights' Entertainments: Consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices (London: Cassell, 1893; New York: Scribners, 1893).

Catriona: A Sequel to Kidnapped (London: Cassell, 1893; New York: Scribners, 1893).

The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and a Quartette, by Stevenson and Osbourne (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894; London: Heinemann, 1894).

The Body-Snatcher (New York: Merriam, 1895).

The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895; New York: Scribners, 1899).

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, with Other Fables (London: Longmans, Green, 1896).

Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896; New York: Scribners, 1896).

A Mountain Town in France: A Fragment (New York & London: Lane, 1896).

Songs of Travel and Other Verses (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896).

In the South Seas (New York: Scribners, 1896; London: Chatto & Windus, 1900).

St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (New York: Scribners, 1897; London: Heinemann, 1898).

The Morality of the Profession of Letters (Gouverneur, N.Y.: Brothers of the Book, 1899).

A Stevenson Medley, edited by S. Colvin (London: Chatto & Windus, 1899).

Essays and Criticisms (Boston: Turner, 1903).

Prayers Written at Vailima, With an Introduction by Mrs. Stevenson (New York: Scribners, 1904; London: Chatto & Windus, 1905).

The Story of a Lie and Other Tales (Boston: Turner, 1904).

Essays of Travel (London: Chatto & Windus, 1905).

Essays in the Art of Writing (London: Chatto & Windus, 1905).

Essays, edited by W. L. Phelps (New York: Scribners, 1906).

Lay Morals and Other Papers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1911).

Records of a Family of Engineers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1916).

The Waif Woman (London: Chatto & Windus, 1916).

On the Choice of a Profession (London: Chatto & Windus, 1916).

Poems Hitherto Unpublished, edited by G. S. Hellman, 2 volumes (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1916).

New Poems and Variant Readings (London: Chatto & Windus, 1918).

Robert Louis Stevenson: Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings, edited by H. H. Harper (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1921).

When the Devil Was Well, edited by William P. Trent (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1921).

Confessions of a Unionist: An Unpublished Talk on Things Current, Written in 1888, edited by F. V. Livingston (Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed, 1921).

The Best Thing in Edinburgh: An Address to the Speculative Society of Edinburgh in March 1873, edited by K. D. Osbourne (San Francisco: Howell, 1923).

Selected Essays, edited by H. G. Rawlinson (London: Oxford University Press, 1923).

Castaways of Soledad: A Manuscript by Stevenson Hitherto Unpublished, edited by Hellman (Buffalo: Privately printed, 1928).

Monmouth: A Tragedy, edited by C. Vale (New York: Rudge, 1928).

The Charity Bazaar: An Allegorical Dialogue (Westport, Conn.: Georgian Press, 1929).

The Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by M. Elwin (London: Macdonald, 1950).

Salute to RLS, edited by F. Holland (Edinburgh: Cousland, 1950).

Tales and Essays, edited by G. B. Stern (London: Falcon, 1950).

Silverado Journal, edited by John E. Jordan (San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1954).

From Scotland to Silverado, edited by James D. Hart (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966).

The Amateur Emigrant with Some First Impressions of America, edited by Roger G. Swearingen, 2 volumes (Ashland, Oreg.: Osborne, 1976-1977).

A Newly Discovered Long Story "An Old Song" and a Previously Unpublished Short Story "Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family," edited by Roger G. Swearingen (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1982; Paisley, Scotland: Wilfion, 1982).

• Robert Louis Stevenson and "The Beach of Falesé": A Study in Victorian Publishing with the Original Text, edited by Barry Menikoff (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984).

Collections

• The Works of R. L. Stevenson, Edinburgh Edition, 28 volumes, edited by Sidney Colvin (London: Chatto & Windus, 1894-1898).
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Edition, 26 volumes, edited by Lloyd Osbourne and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (London: Heinemann, 1922-1923; New York: Scribners, 1922-1923).
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Tusitala Edition, 35 volumes (London: Heinemann, 1924).
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, South Seas Edition, 32 volumes (New York: Scribners, 1925).

Letters

• Sidney Colvin, ed., The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends, 2 volumes (London: Methuen, 1899; New York: Scribners, 1899).

Novels

• Treasure Island (1883)
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886).
• Kidnapped (1886) first edition online from the National Library of Scotland
• The Master of Ballantrae (1889.
• The Wrong Box (1889) (with Lloyd Osbourne).
• The Wrecker (1892) (with Lloyd Osbourne).
• Catriona (1893), also known as David Balfour, is a sequel to Kidnapped.
• The Ebb Tide (1894) (with Lloyd Osbourne).
• Weir of Hermiston (1896). Unfinished.
• St. Ives: being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897). Unfinished, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Short story collections

• New Arabian Nights (2 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1882; 1 volume, New York: Holt, 1882).
• More New Arabian Nights:The Dynamiter (1885); co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
• The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887)
• Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) (1893)

Other works

• Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers (1881)
• Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882)
• Memories and Portraits (1887), a collection of essays.
• Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu (1890)
• Vailima Letters (1895)
• The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire (1995). Based on an 1872 manuscript edited by R. G. Swearingen. California. Silverado Museum.

Poetry

• A Child's Garden of Verses (1885),
• Underwoods (1887), a collection of poems in English and Scots.
• Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
• Ballads (1891)

Travel writing

• An Inland Voyage (1878)
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (London: Kegan Paul, 1879; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879).
• The Silverado Squatters (1883)
• Across the Plains (written 1879–80, published 1892).
• The Amateur Emigrant (written 1879–80, published 1895).

Non-fiction works on the Pacific

• In the South Seas.
• A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (1892)