Robert Louis Stevenson turned a map drawn for his stepson into Treasure Island, and adventure fiction was never the same. Here are free Robert Louis Stevenson books in PDF, from pirate classics to poems and travel writing.
Born in Edinburgh in 1850 into a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson became a giant of Scottish literature. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde gave the world Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, its most famous split self.
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Novels
Robert Louis Stevenson Novels
From Long John Silver's treasure hunt to Henry Jekyll's dark experiment, these are the novels that made Stevenson famous. Several follow David Balfour and Alan Breck across 18th-century Scotland.
Young Jim Hawkins finds a pirate's map and sails for a hidden island with a crew led in secret by Long John Silver. The 1883 adventure that shaped every pirate story since, in a clean modern edition with painted cover art.
A London lawyer investigates the strange bond between the respected Dr Henry Jekyll and the brutal Edward Hyde. Our own Project Aldus edition of the 1886 novella, carefully proofread and typeset with its own cover.
Betrayed by his uncle and shipped off as a slave in 1751, young David Balfour escapes across the Scottish Highlands with the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck. A chase novel built on real history and an unlikely friendship.
The sequel to Kidnapped: David Balfour risks his life to save an innocent man from the gallows and falls for the fiery Catriona Drummond. Political intrigue in 1750s Edinburgh, with Alan Breck back on the run.
Two brothers split their family's loyalties during the 1745 Jacobite rising, and the charming, ruthless James never forgives the one who stayed home. A dark tale of rivalry that runs from Scotland to India and the American wilderness.
During the Wars of the Roses, young Dick Shelton joins a band of forest outlaws to learn who killed his father. Ambushes, disguises and a secret romance, in a clean modern edition with painted cover art.
The idle ruler of the tiny German state of Grunewald wakes up to find his wife and his prime minister plotting to take his throne. A witty court romance that Stevenson rewrote for years.
A French officer captured in the Napoleonic Wars escapes Edinburgh Castle and races across Britain, pursued by soldiers and his own cousin. Stevenson's last adventure novel, finished after his death by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Two brothers stand to inherit a fortune if they outlive each other, and a misplaced corpse sets off a chain of disasters across Victorian London. Stevenson's black comedy, written with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne.
An art student turned businessman buys a wrecked ship at auction in San Francisco and sails to the Pacific to learn why it was worth a fortune. A mystery at sea co-written with Lloyd Osbourne.
Three broke drifters in Tahiti steal a schooner and land on a pearl island ruled by a dangerous, pious Englishman. A dark South Seas novella, one of the last books Stevenson finished.
A gentle son defies his father, a feared hanging judge, and is sent to the Scottish moors, where he falls in love. The novel Stevenson was writing the day he died in Samoa in 1894, often called his masterpiece.
Stevenson's short stories range from the gothic chill of Markheim and Thrawn Janet to the Pacific fable of The Bottle Imp. Each one is a complete story you can finish in one sitting.
Prince Florizel of Bohemia wanders Victorian London in disguise and stumbles into The Suicide Club and the hunt for the Rajah's Diamond. Also includes the moody seaside thriller The Pavilion on the Links.
Stevenson's darkest stories in one volume: the murderer's visit in Markheim, the vampire-like Olalla and the devil's work in Thrawn Janet. Gothic tales of guilt and the supernatural set in Scotland and Spain.
Three tales from the South Seas, including The Bottle Imp, about a bottle that grants every wish but damns its last owner, and The Beach of Falesa. Stories written in Samoa from what he saw around him.
Includes The Body Snatcher, the grim story of two medical students supplying corpses in old Edinburgh, along with The Misadventures of John Nicholson and The Story of a Lie.
Short fables, from Treasure Island characters stepping out of the book to argue about their author, to parables about faith and fate. A quick read that shows Stevenson at his most playful.
A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most loved books of children's poetry, and it is still read aloud today. His adult poems, in English and Scots, show a more personal side of Stevenson.
The classic 1885 collection of poems about childhood, including My Shadow, The Swing and The Land of Counterpane. Illustrated edition, perfect for reading aloud.
Stevenson's poems for adults, written in English and in Scots, including the famous Requiem: Home is the sailor, home from sea. Personal verse about friends, illness and home.
Long narrative poems drawn from Polynesian legend and Scottish history, such as The Song of Rahero and Ticonderoga. Storytelling in verse from his years in the Pacific.
Poems about the open road and the longing for Scotland, written during his travels and his last years in Samoa. Includes The Vagabond and Bright is the Ring of Words, later set to music by Vaughan Williams.
Before he was a famous novelist, Stevenson was a traveler with a notebook. Here are his donkey trek through the Cévennes, his years in the South Seas and his sharp essays on writing and idleness.
In 1878 Stevenson walked 120 miles through the mountains of southern France with a stubborn donkey named Modestine. One of the first great books about hiking, funny and honest.
Stevenson's first book: a canoe trip with a friend along the rivers and canals of Belgium and northern France in 1876. Light, observant travel writing from a young author finding his voice.
His account of sailing through the Marquesas, the Tuamotus and the Gilbert Islands from 1888, with close portraits of island life, chiefs and customs. Written by the traveler who would settle in Samoa.
Stevenson spent his honeymoon in 1880 in an abandoned silver mine on Mount Saint Helena, in California's Napa Valley. A charming memoir of wine country, miners and frontier life.
His 1879 train journey from New York to California as a poor emigrant, plus essays such as The Lantern-Bearers and A Chapter on Dreams, where he tells how Jekyll and Hyde came to him.
A portrait of his home city, from the Old Town's closes and the Castle to its famous bad weather. Stevenson writes about Edinburgh with love and a sharp eye.
Short travel pieces from Scotland, England, France and America, including The Amateur Emigrant's sea voyage and his famous essay Walking Tours. A good companion to his longer travel books.
Essays on love, marriage, youth and idleness, including An Apology for Idlers and Aes Triplex. Stevenson at his wittiest, arguing for a life well enjoyed.
Personal essays about his Edinburgh childhood, old friends and the books that shaped him, including Some College Memories and A Gossip on Romance. Stevenson looking back at how he became a writer.
Essays on writers and thinkers he admired, among them Victor Hugo, Robert Burns, Walt Whitman, Thoreau and Francois Villon. Literary criticism written with a storyteller's warmth.
Stevenson explains his craft: style, rhythm, the morality of the profession and how he wrote Treasure Island. Short and practical, still useful for anyone who writes.
Essays on ethics, money and how to live honestly, plus pieces such as Father Damien, his famous open letter defending the priest of the Molokai leper colony.
Stevenson fought lung disease all his life and finally settled in Samoa, where locals called him Tusitala, the teller of tales. He died there in 1894, at 44, admired by writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and Jorge Luis Borges.
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