Robert louis stevenson biography powerpoint guidelines 2016
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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1 Robert Louis Stevenson
2 Stevenson’s lifeRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in He gained a Law degree but never practised.
He had health problems, so he left Scotland and never went back. At the age of 30 he married Fanny Osbourne, who was American and divorced and had 2 children and they lived in California with little money.
Robert louis stevenson biography powerpoint guidelines 2016
In 1883 he published his first novel, Treasure Island, written for young people but also popular with adults. 3 years later, he published The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. From 1888 he started a series of journeys around the Pacific Islands with his family to benefit from the good climate and settled in Samoa, where he died of stroke in 1894.
3 ThemesThe two most important Stevenson’s novels are The strange case of Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Treasure Island.The two novels are very different but they have the same theme: th