The RLS Club

Tree on blue paper

Click logo to return to home

RLS Books

RLS – a short list of principal publications 

   The publishing history of RLS is astonishingly complicated, partly because of how much he wrote, and partly because many of his works appeared in magazine form before being printed separately.   
   For the detailed description of his prose works, see Roger G. Swearingen, The Prose Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Guide. London: Macmillan, 1980. 
   The following list gives the main editions. (Dates for publication in magazine form are given in brackets).  

1866  The Pentland Rising
1878  An Inland Voyage
1879  Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
        Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
1880  Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life (with W E Henley)
1881  Virginibus puerisque
1882  Familiar Studies of Men and Books
         New Arabian Nights
1883  The Silverado Squatters
         Treasure Island (1881-2)
1884  Admiral Guinea (with W E Henley)
         Beau Austin (with W E Henley)
1885   A Child's Garden of Verses
         Macaire (with W E Henley)
         More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter [in collaboration with Mrs R L Stevenson]
         Prince Otto
1886   Kidnapped
         Some College Memories
         Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1887   Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
         Memories and Portraits
         The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
         Underwoods
1888  The Black Arrow (1883)
1889  The Master of Ballantrae (1888-9)
         The Wrong Box [in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne]
1890  Ballads
         Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu from Robert                  Louis Stevenson
         In the South Seas: A Record of Three Cruises
1892  Across the Plains  with Other Memories and Essays
        The Beach of Falesá
         A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
         The Wrecker [in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne] (1891-2)
1893  Catriona (1892-3)
            Island Nights’ Entertainments
1894  The Ebb Tide [in collaboration with Lloyd Osbourne] (1893-4)
1895  The Amateur Emigrant
1896  [Weir of] Hermiston: An Unfinished Romance
         Songs of Travel
         Records of a Family of Engineers
1897  St Ives (1896-7)
1924   New Poems

   Welcome>>   RLS Books>>