2. BIOGRAPHY
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, Scotland,
November 13, 1850 - Vailima near Apia, Samoa,
December 3, 1894) was a novelist, poet and essayist
Scottish. Stevenson, who suffered from tuberculosis,
came to meet only 44 years, but his legacy is a vast work
that includes trip reports, and historical adventure novels
and poetry and essays. He is best known as the author of
some of the fantastic stories and adventures of classic
children's literature, Treasure Island, the historical novel
The Black Arrow and the popular horror novel The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the theme of
the phenomena of split personality, and can be read as a
psychological horror novel.
3. BIOGRAPHY
Several of his novels remain very famous and some of
them have been repeatedly made into films of the
twentieth century, partly adapted for children. It was also
important to his essays, short but decisive work in regard
to the structure of the modern novel of adventure. I was
very appreciated in his time and remained so after his
death. Continued in authors such as Joseph Conrad,
Graham Greene, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and
Argentine Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.
