He followed with the Scottish romances Kidnapped (1886) and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island, was published in 1883 and brought him great fame, which only increased with the publication of The Strange Case of Dr. His travel essays were publihsed widely, and his short fiction was gathered in many volumes.
The balance of his life was taken up with his unremitting devotion to work, and a search for a cure to his illness that took him all over the world. The son of upper-middle-class parents, he was the victim of lung trouble from birth, and spent a sheltered childhood surrounded by constant care. In the brief span of forty-four years, dogged by poor health, he made an enormous contribution to English literature with his novels, poetry, and essays. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh.
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