Editing Robert Louis Stevenson (section)

==Works==
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===Novels===
[[File:Kidnapped p58 (WBHole).jpg|thumb|upright|Illustration from ''[[Kidnapped (novel)|Kidnapped]]''. Caption: "Hoseason turned upon him with a flash" ([[s:Kidnapped/Chapter 7|chapter VII]], "I Go to Sea in the Brig "Covenant" of Dysart")]]
* ''The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth'' (1877) – unfinished and unpublished.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McCracken |first=Edd |date=20 March 2011 |title=Found: Louis Stevenson's missing masterpiece |work=Sunday Herald |location=Glasgow |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/found-louis-stevenson-s-missing-masterpiece-1.1091457 |access-date=20 March 2011 |archive-date=9 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309204423/http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/found-louis-stevenson-s-missing-masterpiece-1.1091457 |url-status=live }}</ref> An annotated edition of the original manuscript, edited and introduced by Roger G. Swearingen, was published as ''The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza'' in August 2014.
* ''[[Treasure Island]]'' (1883) – his first major success, a tale of [[piracy]], buried treasure and [[Adventure fiction|adventure]]; has been filmed frequently. In an 1881 letter to W. E. Henley, he provided the earliest-known title, "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys".
* ''[[Prince Otto]]'' (1885) – Stevenson's third full-length narrative, an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Grünewald.
* ''[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]'' (1886) – a novella about a [[Dissociative identity disorder|dual personality]]; much adapted in plays and films; also influential in the growth of understanding of the subconscious mind through its treatment of a kind and intelligent physician who turns into a [[psychopath]]ic monster after imbibing a drug intended to separate good from evil in a personality.
* ''[[Kidnapped (novel)|Kidnapped]]'' (1886) – a historical novel that tells of the boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance and his alliance with [[Alan Breck Stewart]] in the intrigues of [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] troubles in Scotland.
* ''[[The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses|The Black Arrow]]'' (1888) – a historical [[adventure novel]] and [[Romance novel|romance]] set during the [[Wars of the Roses]].
* ''[[The Master of Ballantrae]]'' (1889) – a tale of revenge set in Scotland, America and India.
* ''[[The Wrong Box (novel)|The Wrong Box]]'' (1889) – co-written with [[Lloyd Osbourne]]. A [[comic novel]] of a [[tontine]]; [[The Wrong Box|filmed]] in 1966 starring [[John Mills]], [[Ralph Richardson]] and [[Michael Caine]].
* ''[[The Wrecker (Stevenson novel)|The Wrecker]]'' (1892) – co-written with Lloyd Osbourne: the last part was filmed in 1957 as a [[List of Maverick episodes|television series episode]] of ''[[Maverick (TV series)|Maverick]]'' starring [[James Garner]] and [[Jack Kelly (actor)|Jack Kelly]], with full credit to Stevenson and Osbourne.
* ''[[Catriona (novel)|Catriona]]'' (1893) – also known as ''David Balfour''; a sequel to ''Kidnapped'', telling of Balfour's further adventures.
* ''[[The Ebb-Tide]]'' (1894) – co-written with [[Lloyd Osbourne]].
* ''[[Weir of Hermiston]]'' (1896) – unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; considered to have promised great artistic growth.
* ''[[St. Ives (novel)|St Ives]]'' (1897) – unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death; completed by [[Arthur Quiller-Couch]].

===Short story collections===
[[File:Portrait of R. L. Stevenson at the age of thirty-seven.jpg|thumb|upright|{{center|Stevenson at 37}}]]

*''[[New Arabian Nights]]'' (1882) (11 stories)
*''[[More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter]]'' (1885) (co-written with [[Fanny Stevenson|Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson]])
*''[[The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables]]'' (1887) (6 stories)
*''[[Island Nights' Entertainments]]'' (1893) (3 stories)
*''Fables'' (1896) (20 stories: "The Persons of the Tale", "The Sinking Ship", "The Two Matches", "The Sick Man and the Fireman", "The Devil and the Innkeeper", "The Penitent", "The Yellow Paint", "The House of Eld", "The Four Reformers", "The Man and His Friend", "The Reader", "The Citizen and the Traveller", "The Distinguished Stranger", "The Carthorses and the Saddlehorse", "The Tadpole and the Frog", "Something in It", "Faith, Half Faith and No Faith at All", "The Touchstone", "The Poor Thing" and "The Song of the Morrow")
*''[[Tales and Fantasies]]'' (1905) (3 stories)
*''South Sea Tales'' (1996) (6 stories: "The Beach of Falesá", "The Bottle Imp", "The Isle of Voices", "The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette", "The Cart-Horses and the Saddle-Horse" and "Something in It")

===Short stories===
List of short stories sorted chronologically.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://robert-louis-stevenson.org/|title=Robert Louis Stevenson|website=robert-louis-stevenson.org|accessdate=8 December 2022|archive-date=8 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208073658/https://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Note: does not include collaborations with Fanny found in ''More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter''.
{| class="wikitable sortable" class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Title
!Date
!Collection
!Notes
|-
|"An Old Song"
|1875
|Uncollected
|Stevenson's first published fiction, in ''London'', 1877. Anonymous. Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen.
|-
|"When the Devil Was Well"
|1875
|Uncollected
|First published in 1921, by the Boston Bibliophile Society.
|-
|"Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family"
|1877
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. Not truly a short-story. First published in 1982 by R. Swearingen.
|-
|"Will o' the Mill"
|1877
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
||First published in ''[[The Cornhill Magazine]]'', 1878
|-
|"A Lodging for the Night"
|1877
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First published in ''[[Temple Bar (magazine)|Temple Bar]]'' in 1877
|-
|"The Sire De Malétroit's Door"
|1877
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First published in ''Temple Bar'' in 1878
|-
|"[[The Suicide Club (short story collection)|The Suicide Club]]"
|1878
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First published in ''London'' in 1878. Three interconnected stories: "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts", "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk" and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab". Part of the ''[[Later-day Arabian Nights]]''.
|-
|"[[The Rajah's Diamond]]"
|1878
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First published in ''London'' in 1878. Four interconnected stories: "Story of the Bandbox", "Story of the Young Man in Holy Orders", "Story of the House with the Green Blinds" and "The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective". Part of the ''Later-day Arabian Nights''.
|-
|"Providence and the Guitar"
|1878
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First published in ''London'' in 1878
|-
|"The Story of a Lie"
|1879
|''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905
|First published in ''New Quarterly Magazine'' in 1879.
|-
|"[[The Pavilion on the Links]]"
|1880
|''New Arabian Nights'', 1882
|First Published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'' in 1880. Told in 9 mini-chapters. Later included with a few suppressions in ''New Arabian Nights''. [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]] in 1890 called it the first English short story.
|-
|"[[Thrawn Janet]]"
|1881
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
|First published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', 1881
|-
|"[[The Body Snatcher]]"
|1881
|''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905
|First published in the Christmas 1884 edition of ''[[The Pall Mall Gazette]]''.
|-
|"[[The Merry Men (short story)|The Merry Men]]"
|1882
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
|First published in ''The Cornhill Magazine'' in 1882. Later included with changes in ''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables''.
|-
|"Diogenes"
|1882
|Uncollected
|Two sketches: "Diogenes in London" and "Diogenes at the Savile Club".
|-
|"The Treasure of Franchard"
|1883
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
|First published in ''[[Longman's Magazine]]'', 1883
|-
|"[[Markheim]]"
|1884
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
|First published in the ''Broken Shaft. Unwin's Annual.'', 1885
|-
|"[[Olalla (short story)|Olalla]]"
|1885
|''The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables'', 1887
|First published in ''[[The Court and Society Review]]'', 1885
|-
|"The Great North Road"
|1885
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published in ''Illustrated London News''/''The Cosmopolitan'', 1895
|-
|"[[The Story of a Recluse]]"
|1885
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published by the Boston Bibliophile Society, 1921. Later completed by [[Alasdair Gray]].
|-
|"[[Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde]]"
|1886
|Standalone, 1886
|Novella. Also referred to, more rarely, as a short novel.<ref>''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales'', Robert Louis Stevenson. Oxford World's Classics.</ref>
|-
|"The Misadventures of John Nicholson"
|1887
|''Tales and Fantasies'', 1905
|Novella. With the subtitle: "A Christmas Story". First published in ''Yule Tide'', 1887
|-
|"The Clockmaker"
|1880s
|Uncollected
|One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Parfect |first=Ralph |date=2005 |title=Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Clockmaker" and "The Scientific Ape": Two Unpublished Fables |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/366388 |journal=English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=387–400 |doi=10.2487/Y008-J320-0428-0742 |issn=1559-2715}}</ref> 
|-
|"The Scientific Ape"
|1880s
|Uncollected
|One of two fables not included in the 1896 collection.
|-
|"The Enchantress"
|1889
|Uncollected
|First published in the Fall 1989 issue of ''The Georgia Review''.
|-
|"Adventures of Henry Shovel"
|1891
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published in the ''Vailima Edition'', Vol. 25. Published alongside three other short fragments: "The Owl", "Cannonmills" and "Mr Baskerville and His Ward".
|-
|"[[The Bottle Imp]]"
|1891
|''[[Island Nights' Entertainments]]'', 1893
|First published in ''[[Black and White (magazine)|Black and White]]'', 1891
|-
|"[[The Beach of Falesá]]"
|1892
|''Island Nights' Entertainments'', 1893
|Novella. First published in ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'' in 1892
|-
|"[[The Isle of Voices]]"
|1892
|''Island Nights' Entertainments'', 1893
|First published in ''[[National Observer (UK)|National Observer]]'', 1883
|-
|"The Waif Woman"
|1892
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published in the ''[[Scribner's Magazine]]'', 1914
|-
|"The Young Chevalier"
|1893
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', Vol. 26, 1897
|-
|"Heathercat"
|1894
|Uncollected
|Unfinished. First published in the ''Edinburgh Edition'', Vol. 20, 1897
|}

===Non-fiction===
[[File:Pen and Ink Sketch of Stevenson.jpg|thumb|upright|Pen and ink sketch by [[Wyatt Eaton]], 1888]]

*{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Béranger, Pierre Jean de|short=x}} – first published in the [[EB9|9th edition]] (1875–1889).
*''Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers'' (1881), contains the essays ''Virginibus Puerisque i'' (1876); ''Virginibus Puerisque ii'' (1881); ''Virginibus Puerisque iii: On Falling in Love'' (1877); ''Virginibus Puerisque iv: The Truth of Intercourse'' (1879); ''Crabbed Age and Youth'' (1878); ''An Apology for Idlers'' (1877); ''Ordered South'' (1874); ''Aes Triplex'' (1878); ''El Dorado'' (1878); ''The English Admirals'' (1878); ''Some Portraits by Raeburn'' (previously unpublished); ''Child's Play'' (1878); ''Walking Tours'' (1876); ''Pan's Pipes'' (1878); ''A Plea for Gas Lamps'' (1878).
*''Familiar Studies of Men and Books'' (1882) containing ''Preface, by Way of Criticism'' (not previously published); ''Victor Hugo's Romances'' (1874); ''Some Aspects of Robert Burns'' (1879); ''The Gospel According to Walt Whitman'' (1878); ''Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions'' (1880); ''Yoshida-Torajiro'' (1880); ''François Villon, Student, Poet, Housebreaker'' (1877); ''Charles of Orleans'' (1876); ''Samuel Pepys'' (1881); ''John Knox and his Relations to Women'' (1875).
*''[[Memories and Portraits]]'' (1887), a collection of essays.
*''On the Choice of a Profession'' (1887)
*''The Day After Tomorrow'' (1887)
*''Memoir of [[Fleeming Jenkin]]'' (1888)
*''[[Father Damien]]: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu'' (1890)
*''[[A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa]]'' (1892)
*''Vailima Letters'' (1895)
*''Prayers Written at Vailima'' (1904)
*''Essays in the Art of Writing'' (1905)
*''The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire'' (1995) – based on an 1872 manuscript, edited by R. G. Swearingen. California. Silverado Museum.
*''Sophia Scarlet'' (2008) – based on an 1892 manuscript, edited by Robert Hoskins. AUT Media (AUT University).

===Poetry===
*''[[Moral Emblems]]'' (1882)
*''[[A Child's Garden of Verses]]'' (1885) – written for children but also popular with their parents. Includes such favourites as "My Shadow" and "The Lamplighter". Often thought to represent a positive reflection of the author's sickly childhood.
*''[[Underwoods]]'' (1887), a collection of poetry written in both English and [[Scots language|Scots]]
*''Ballads'' (1891) – includes "Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands" (1887), based on a famous Scottish ghost story, and "Heather Ale", arguably Stevenson's most famous poem
*''[[Songs of Travel and Other Verses]]'' (1896)
*''Poems Hitherto Unpublished'', 3 vol. 1916, 1916, 1921, Boston Bibliophile Society, republished in ''New Poems''

===Plays===
*''Three Plays'' (1892), co-written with [[William Ernest Henley]]. Includes the theatre pieces ''Deacon Brodie'', ''Beau Austin'' and ''Admiral Guinea''.

===Travel writing===
[[File:Robert Louis Stevenson with the Native Chief Tui-Ma-Le-Alh-Fano.jpg|thumb|upright|Stevenson with native Chief Tui-Ma-Le-Alh-Fano]]

*''[[An Inland Voyage]]'' (1878), travels with a friend in a [[Rob Roy canoe|''Rob Roy'' canoe]] from [[Antwerp]] (Belgium) to [[Pontoise]], just north of Paris.
*''[[Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes]]'' (1878) - a [[paean]] to his birthplace, it provides Stevenson's personal introduction to each part of the city and some history behind the various sections of the city and its most famous buildings.
*''[[Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]'' (1879), two weeks' solo ramble (with Modestine as his [[Pack animal|beast of burden]]) in the mountains of [[Cévennes]] (south-central France), one of the first books to present hiking and [[camping]] as [[recreation|recreational activities]]. It tells of commissioning one of the first [[sleeping bag]]s.
*''[[The Silverado Squatters]]'' (1883). An unconventional honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in [[Napa Valley]] with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd. He presciently identifies the [[California wine]] industry as one to be reckoned with.
*''[[Across the Plains (book)|Across the Plains]]'' (written in 1879–80, published in 1892). Second leg of his journey, by train from New York to California (then picks up with ''The Silverado Squatters''). Also includes other travel essays.
*''[[The Amateur Emigrant]]'' (written 1879–80, published 1895). An account of the first leg of his journey to California, by ship from Europe to New York. Andrew Noble (''From the Clyde to California: Robert Louis Stevenson's Emigrant Journey'', 1985) considers it to be his finest work.
*''The Old and New Pacific Capitals'' (1882). An account of his stay in Monterey, California in August to December 1879. Never published separately. See, for example, James D. Hart, ed., ''From Scotland to Silverado'', 1966.
*''Essays of Travel'' (London: [[Chatto & Windus]], 1905)
*Sawyers, June Skinner (ed.) (2002), ''Dreams of Elsewhere: The Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson'', The In Pin, Glasgow, {{isbn|1-903238-62-5}}

===Island literature===
Although not well known, his island fiction and non-fiction is among the most valuable and collected of the 19th century body of work that addresses the Pacific area.
*''In the South Seas'' (1896). A collection of Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
*''[[A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa|A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa]]'' (1892).