Robert Louis Stevenson

[bobduvar]

"Heureux, je le fus un fois et ce fut à Hyères".

Robert Louis Stevenson

[SouthernIowaLady]

I have read Treasure Island, The Black Arrow, and Kidnapped. Thanks for posting this; it helps me see better into the mind of the author.

[SouthernIowaLady]

@SouthernIowaLady by the way could you please tell me the name of the background piece?

[eutytoalba]

The shot at 1:50 makes him look like Remus Lupin; Kinna appropriate given his most famous work. :-)

Because of Stevenson, I always write down my nightmares in the hope that I might just be getting a career handed to me. :-3

He was also a big inspiration for me last November during NaNoWriMo (a 50k-word-novel-in-30-days writing marathon) because he wrote Jekyll & Hyde at a rate of over 10k words a day. True, he had cocaine, but we have flavored coffee creamer! :D

[Ealasaid17]

@eutytoalba That flavored coffee creamer might resemble cocaine nowadays. LOL :)

[jjhu04]

im reallted to this guy

[ShadowXtrem420]

@SheBee1221 It REALLY is! He's my great, great grand father! On my mother's side.

[jjhu04]

@ShadowXtrem420 dude really im reallted to this guy too i have know idea how something like a dstant cousin

[ShadowXtrem420]

While I'm here... who gave this montage tribute the 3 dislikes? My great, great grand father was a very talented author. Please show him respect...

[EstelleVEdwards]

@ShadowXtrem420 - I definitely respect him. He's the man who gave us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. However, The Bottle Imp is one of my favorite supernatural short stories. The intriguing part of the story is the stipulation that the current owner of the bottle has to sell it to somebody else for less money that what he paid for it. Of course, this makes it difficult for each successive owner of the botlle to facilitate a transaction to get rid of it.

[ShadowXtrem420]

@ MissInsomnea Me too! I'm related to R.L.S. through my mom's side, which her maiden name was also Stevenson. This is cool!

[TheGreenerItGets]

Happy 160th sir!

[pratheepgshadow]

very nice......... thank u for giving this beautiful video.. after reading his "treasure island", i ve become a big fan of him.... "I love R.L.STEVENSON" !!!

[LoveBeing53]

A very good job!

One's fun- another's pleasure!

We all make each other happy :-)

Thanks!

Gil :-)

[leoo30020]

@VariedInterest Plz. Can sb tell me what aspect of Stevenson's early life in Scotland influenced his ideas?

[leoo30020]

Plz. Can sb tell me what aspect of Stevenson's early life in Scotland influenced his ideas?

[GhostWritersDragon]

@leoo30020 He was an only child, a sick child at that..his Mother hired Alison Cunningham (or "Cummy") as he called her. She was a strict Calvinist and told him stories of hellfire and damnation which frightened him, later on he realized that religion did not do to many favors for him and became an athiest. Read the Letters Of Robert Louis Stevenson...great book and insight.

[MissInsomnea]

Related to him on my dads side :D

[JasonTheMuse]

love the music you chose

[DiabloNorth]

He wrote Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in six days and nights on a cocaine binge. "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health should have been able to perform the manual labour alone of putting 60,000 words on paper in six days, seems almost incredible," said his astonished wife, Fanny.

[Maligise]

I LOVE YOU FOREVER MORE

[Maligise]

He is the Invisible Man[Manoo]

[Maligise]

In my Law, there is no Statute of Limitations

[VariedInterest]

Oh wow, my copy must have a misprint.

Who is H.G. Wells?

[Maligise]

Everyone duplicate someone's work or even worse[identity]. But the Invisible is a work no one else can duplicate because it's Alive:):)

[ProcolHarum1967]

An English writer famous for writing The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds

[flyfifer51]

Thanks very much for putting up these wonderful pictures - most of which I've never seen before. Congrats also for the music - which works so well. Is it from a Scottish folk band?

Kenny from Fife

[Ealasaid17]

The Music is from the Album (I think) Jockey To The Fair by Micheal Ó Súilleabháin

[JEBPTE]

@Ealasaid17

THIS IS NOT SCOTTISH MUSIC

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin is one of Ireland's best known musicians. He has over ten CD recordings on release of his own compositions and arrangements performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra under his direction. As a pianist, he is widely acknowledged as having originated a unique Irish piano style out of an Irish traditional base.

[Ealasaid17]

@JEBPTE I never said it was Scottish and am well aware it is an Irish artist playing the music. So what!!! It's good music!

[SheBee1221]

im related to robert louis stevenson.its cool to be related to an author like him

[Ealasaid17]

Yes, I am very much so :)

[annievanna]

nice,youre obviously a fan?