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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. - Robert Louis Stevenson Attribution: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. “An Apology for Idlers,” Virginibus Puerisque (1881).

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Titles by Robert Louis Stevenson:

• Kidnapped
• The Black Arrow
• The Master of Ballantrae
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Treasure Island

eNotes:

• Robert Louis Stevenson (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island)
• The Double Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island)

Salem on History:

• Robert Louis Stevenson

Critical Companions:

• Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850 - 1894) (Gothic Literature)

Videohound Movie Retriever:

• Robert Louis Stevenson's The Game of Death

Encyclopedia:

• Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• Stevenson, Robert Louis (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
• Stevenson, Robert Louis (The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales)

Salem on Literature:

• Robert Louis Stevenson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Critical Survey of Poetry)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Magill’s Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Magill’s Choice: Notable British Novelists)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Magill Book Reviews)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)

Literary Criticism:

• Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson (Short Story Criticism)
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism)

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