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  • The Pentland Rising: a page of history(Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1866).
  • An Appeal to the Clergy (Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1875).
  • Macaire (Edinburgh: Privately printed, 1885).
  • Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (London & New York: Longmans, Green, 1887). Online from Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • The Morality of the Profession of Letters (Gouverneur, N.Y.: Brothers of the Book, 1899). Online at Project Gutenberg Etext
  • A Stevenson Medley, edited by S. Colvin (London: Chatto & Windus, 1899).
  • 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).
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: Hitherto Unpublished Prose Writings, edited by H. H. Harper (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1921).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).
  • Castaways of Soledad: A Manuscript by Stevenson Hitherto Unpublished, edited by Hellman (Buffalo: Privately printed, 1928).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).
  • Salute to RLS, edited by F. Holland (Edinburgh: Cousland, 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).
  • 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).

Essays

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

Plays

Online at the World Wide School site

Novels

  • Treasure Island (London: Cassell, 1883; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884). first serialized in Young Folks 1881-82.Online text at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Yo-ho-ho, and the bottle of rum!
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

see also Stevenson's essay "MY FIRST BOOK: 'TREASURE ISLAND' (Project Gutenberg Etext)

  • Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (London: Longmans, Green, 1886; New York: Scribners, 1886). Online at bibliomania
  • Kidnapped (London: Cassell, 1886; New York: Scribners, 1886). Online text at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library. first edition online from the National Library of Scotland
  • The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale (London: Cassell, 1889; New York: Scribners, 1889).see also Stevenson's essay THE GENESIS OF 'THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE' and the PREFACE TO 'THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE' (Project Gutenberg Etext)
  • The Wrong Box (London: Longmans, Green, 1889; New York: Scribners, 1889). (with Lloyd Osbourne).
  • The Wrecker (London: Cassell, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892). (1892) (with Lloyd Osbourne). Online text at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • Catriona: A Sequel to Kidnapped(1893), also known as David Balfour, (London: Cassell, 1893; New York: Scribners, 1893). Online text at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • *The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and a Quartette, (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1894; London: Heinemann, 1894). (with Lloyd Osbourne).
  • St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (New York: Scribners, 1897; London: Heinemann, 1898).Unfinished, the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
  • Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896; New York: Scribners, 1896).
  • Prince Otto: A Romance (London: Chatto & Windus, 1885; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886). Online at bibliomania.

Short stories

  • Fables published in New York by Longmans, Green in 1902. Previously, the thirteen fables had been published with other works. Available online from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  • New Arabian Nights (2 volumes, London: Chatto & Windus, 1882; 1 volume, New York: Holt, 1882).
  • More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, by Stevenson and Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (London: Longmans, Green, 1885; New York: Holt, 1885).
  • Island Nights' Entertainments: Consisting of The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices (London: Cassell, 1893; New York: Scribners, 1893).
  • 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).
  • The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; New York: Scribners, 1887).
  • The Story of a Lie and Other Tales (Boston: Turner, 1904).
  • 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 Body-Snatcher (New York: Merriam, 1895).

Other works

  • 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).
  • Some College Memories (Edinburgh: University Union Committee, 1886; New York: Mansfield & Wessels, 1899).
  • 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.
  • Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu (London: Chatto & Windus, 1890; Portland, Maine: Mosher, 1897).
  • Prayers Written at Vailima, With an Introduction by Mrs. Stevenson (New York: Scribners, 1904; London: Chatto & Windus, 1905).

Poetry

"The child that is not clean and neat,
With lots of toys and things to eat,
He is a naughty child, I’m sure—
Or else his dear papa is poor."

From 'System'

  • Underwoods (London: Chatto & Windus, 1887; New York: Scribners, 1887). A collection of poems in English and Scots. Online at Bartleby.com
"FAR ’yont amang the years to be
When a’ we think, an’ a’ we see,
An’ a’ we luve, ’s been dung ajee
By time’s rouch shouther,
An’ what was richt and wrang for me
Lies mangled throu’ther"

From 'The Maker to Posterity'

  • Songs of Travel and Other Verses (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896). Hypertext Meanings from the Encyclopedia of the Self at Mark Zimmerman’s Self Knowledge site
"Wealth I ask not, hope nor love
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me."
  • Ballads (London: Chatto & Windus, 1890; New York: Scribners, 1890).
  • Poems Hitherto Unpublished, edited by G. S. Hellman, 2 volumes (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1916).
  • New Poems and Variant Readings (London: Chatto & Windus, 1918).

Travel writing

  • Edingburgh Picturesque Notes (Free Public Domain Books from the Classic Literature Library) (Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes, with Etchings; London: Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1879; New York: Macmillan, 1889)
  • An Inland Voyage (London: Kegan Paul, 1878; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883).
  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (London: Kegan Paul, 1879; Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879). Online at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • The Silverado Squatters (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883; New York: Munro, 1884). Online at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • Across the Plains (written 1879–80, published 1892). Online at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library
  • The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1895; New York: Scribners, 1899).
  • A Mountain Town in France: A Fragment (New York & London: Lane, 1896). Online at Accueil terresdecrivains.com
  • The Amateur Emigrant with Some First Impressions of America, edited by Roger G. Swearingen, 2 volumes (Ashland, Oreg.: Osborne, 1976-1977).
  • Essays of Travel Online at Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Non-fiction works on the Pacific

  • In the South Seas (New York: Scribners, 1896; London: Chatto & Windus, 1900).
  • A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (London: Cassell, 1892; New York: Scribners, 1892).