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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer celebrated for vivid storytelling in classics such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. He fused romantic adventure with psychological depth and, later, a tougher South Seas realism drawn from wide travels and his life in Samoa, where he wrote, collected local tales and engaged in political advocacy. A persuasive theorist of fiction and a prolific stylist, Stevenson helped free children's literature from Victorian didacticism and influenced generations of writers from Henry James and Joseph Conrad to modern storytellers. His blend of imagination, moral inquiry and travel-won insight has secured a global, enduring readership and a lasting place in world literature.
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