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Nov. 13: Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Wikipedia
Born: November 13, 1850, Howard Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Died: December 3, 1894, Vailima, Samoa
Spouse: Fanny Stevenson (m. 1880–1894)
Short stories: The Bottle Imp, The Body Snatcher, Markheim, Olalla, MORE
Quotes
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

"Them that die will be the lucky ones!"
–from TREASURE ISLAND (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none so apt as Peake’s–first published in 1949 and out of print until now. READ an excerpt here: vhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/173202/treasure-island-by-robert-louis-stevenson/

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