Order of Robert Louis Stevenson Books

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish author renowned for his masterpieces, Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. While he enjoyed acclaim and celebrity during his lifetime, post-World War I critics like Virginia Woolf deemed him a “second class writer.” However, appreciation for the Scottish novelist resurfaced when Oxford Inkling Roger Lancelyn Green described Stevenson as “a writer of a consistently high level of literary skill or sheer imaginative power.” Stevenson’s inaugural novel, The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth, remained unfinished and unpublished. His subsequent work, Treasure Island, released in 1883, would become one of his most celebrated creations. Below is a chronological list of Robert Louis Stevenson’s published works.