Презентация "Роберт Льюис Стивенсон"

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13th of November in 1850. His real name was Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson

Edinburgh is a political and cultural centre of Scotland

Robert had a wonderful imagination . He was never bored. Stevenson could be happy in any circumstances

You can see the drawing of Robert. He drew it when he was six

After finishing school he entered the Edinburgh University and became a lawer

Robert was fond of travelling . In France he met Frances Matilda Osbourne and she became his wife.

In the same year he fell ill. It was tuberculosis. Looking for healthy climate he visited Switzerland

He visited Australia, Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti and many other islands

The island’s climate was useful for tevenson. He wrote some of his best works in Samoa. But his health became worse.

You can see the words of his famous poem «Requiem» there

The works of Stevenson belong to neoromanticism

If you want come into the world of some Stevenson's works you must know about the history and language of Scotland

These are the best books of Stevenson

Treasure Island (1883)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)

A Child’s Carden of Verse (1885)

The success of famous Stevenson’s books is partly explained by the exciting themes of the next books

«The Black Arrow» is the real standard of a historical adventure novel

«David Balfour» is an exciting story of the young David Balfour, kidnapped by pirates

«Sea Buzzard»

«The Owner of Ballantrer»

It is considered that Stevenson has finished only one third of the book

Lets sum up. Robert Louis Stevenson (November 3, 1850, Edinburgh – December 3, 1894, Upolu, Samoa) – a Scottish writer and poet, the author of famous adventure novels and stories, the greatest representative of English neo-romanticism