The Most Famous Works by Robert Lewis Stevenson

• Treasure Island 1883
• A Child's Garden of Verses 1885
• Kidnapped 1886
• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 1886

Works by Robert Lewis Stevenson

• New Poems
• Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
• Lay Morals and Other Papers
• Records of a Family of Engineers
• Island Nights' Entertainments 1893
• Memories and Portraits 1887
• Virginibus Puerisque 1881
• Tales and Fantasies
• Songs of Travel and Other Verses
• Essays in The Art of Writing
• The Silverado Squatters 1883
• David Balfour: Second Part
• Prayers Written At Vailima
• A Lowden Sabbath Morn
• Essays of Travel
• Moral Emblems
• The Pocket R.L.S.
• The Sea Fogs

Novels

• The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth
  
  • 1877
    Unfinished and unpublished
  • August 2014
    The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza
    An annotated edition of the original manuscript
    edited and introduced by Roger G. Swearingen
• Treasure Island
  His first major success
  a tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure
  In a 1891 letter to W.E. Henley, he provided the earliest known title
  "The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island: a Story for Boys".
  • 1883
• Prince Otto's Romance
  an action romance set in the imaginary Germanic state of Gr[uu]newald
  • 1885
• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde a novella about a dual personality
  • 1886
• Kidnapped
  a historical novel about boy David Balfour's pursuit of his inheritance AND
  and his alliance with Alan Breck Stewart
  in the intrigues of Jacobite troubles in Scotland
  • 1886
• The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses
  An historical adventure novel and romance set during the Wars of the Roses
  • 1888
• 1889 - The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale
  a tale of revenge, set in Scotland, America, and India
• 1889 - The Wrong Box
  co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
  A comic novel of a tontine
  filmed (1966)
• 1892 - The Wrecker
  co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
• 1893 - Catriona
  also known as David Balfour
  a sequel to Kidnapped
• 1894 - The Ebb-Tide
  co-written with Lloyd Osbourne
• 1896 - Weir of Hermiston
  Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
• 1897 - St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
  Unfinished at the time of Stevenson's death
  the novel was completed by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Short story collections

• 1882 - New Arabian Nights
• 1885 - More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter
  co-written with Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson
• 1887 - The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
  contains 6 stories.
• 1893 - Island Nights' Entertainments
  also known as South Sea Tales
  contains three longer stories
• 1896 - Fables
  contains 20 stories:
  • The persons of the tale
  • The sinking ship
  • The two matches
  • The sick man and the fireman
  • The devil and the innkeeper
  • The penitent
  • The yellow paint
  • The house of Eld
  • The four reformers
  • The man and his friend
  • The reader
  • The citizen and the traveller
  • The distinguished stranger
  • The carthorse and the saddlehorse
  • The tadpole and the frog
  • something in it
  • Faith, half faith and no faith at all
  • The touchstone
  • The poor thing
  • The song of the morrow
• Tales and Fantasies, 1905, contains The Story of a Lie, The Body Snatcher, The Misadventures of John Nicholson.

Short stories (chronologically)

• 1875 - "When the Devil was Well"
  in 1921, Boston Bibliophile Society
• 1877 - "An Old Song" Uncollected
  Stevenson's first Published Fiction, in London, 1877. Anonymous
  Republished in 1982 by R. Swearingen
• 1877 - "Edifying Letters of the Rutherford Family"
  Unfinished, uncollected
  Not truly a short-story
  First published in 1982 by R. Swearingen
• 1877 - "Will O' the Mill"
  in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables
  First published: Cornhill Magazine, 1878
• 1877 - "A Lodging for the Night"
  in New Arabian Nights (1882) First published: Temple Bar 1877
• 1877 - "The Sire De Mal[ea]troits Door"
• iin New Arabian Nights, 1882
  First published: Temple Bar 1878
• 1878 - "Later-day Arabian Nights"
  in New Arabian Nights, 1882
  First published in London in 1878
  Seven interconnected stories in two cycles: The Suicide Club (3 stories) The Rajah's Diamond (4 stories)
• 1878 - "Providence and the Guitar"
  in New Arabian Nights, 1882 First published in London in 1878
• 1879 - "The Story of a Lie"
  in The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol 3, 1895
  First published ; New Quarterly Magazine 1879
• 1880 - "The Pavilion on the Links"
  With a few suppressions in New Arabian Nights, 1882 First Published: Cornhill Magazine 1880 Told in 9 mini-chapters Conan Doyle in 1890 called it the first English short story
• 1881 - "Thrawn Janet"
  in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published: Cornhill Magazine, 1881
• 1881 - "The Body Snatcher"
  in Edinburgh Edition, 1895
  First published: the Christmas 1884 edition of the Pall Mall Gazette
• 1882 - "The Merry Men"
  With changes in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published: Cornhill Magazine in 1882
• 1883 - "The Treasure of Franchard"
  in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887
  First published: Longman's Magazine, 1883
• 1884 - "Markheim"
  in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published: Broken Shaft. Unwin's Annual, 1885
• 1885 - "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" 1886
  referred to as a short story or novella, or sometimes a short novel
• 1885 - "Olalla"
  in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 1887 First published: Court and Society Review, 1885
• 1885-1887 - "The Misadventures of John Nicholson: A Christmas Story"
  in Edinburgh Edition, 1897
  First published: Yule Tide, 1887
• 1891 - "The Bottle Imp"
  in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
  First published: Black and White, 1891
• 1892 - "The Beach of Fales[aa]"
  in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
  First published: Illustrated London News, 1892
• 1892 - "The Isle of Voices"
• in Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
  First published: National Observer, 1883
• 1892 - "The Waif Woman"
  1914
  First published: Scribner's Magazine, 1914

Other works

• 1911 - "B[ea]ranger, Pierre Jean de"
  Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911
  First published: Britannica 9th edition (1875–1889)
  Wikisource
• 1881 - Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers
  contains the essays
  • Virginibus Puerisque i (1876)
  • Virginibus Puerisque ii (1881)
  • Virginibus Puerisque iii: On Falling in Love (1877)
  • Virginibus Puerisque iv: The Truth of Intercourse (1879)
  • Crabbed Age and Youth (1878)
  • An Apology for Idlers (1877)
  • Ordered South (1874)
  • Aes Triplex (1878)
  • El Dorado (1878)
  • The English Admirals (1878)
  • Some Portraits by Raeburn (previously unpublished)
  • Child's Play (1878)
  • Walking Tours (1876)
  • Pan's Pipes (1878)
  • A Plea for Gas Lamps (1878)
• 1882 - Familiar Studies of Men and Books
  containing
  • Preface, by Way of Criticism (not previously published)
  • Victor Hugo's Romances (1874)
  • Some Aspects of Robert Burns (1879)
  • The Gospel According to Walt Whitman (1878)
  • Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions (1880)
  • Yoshida-Torajiro (1880)
  • Fran[cc]ois Villon, Student, Poet, Housebreaker (1877)
  • Charles of Orleans (1876)
  • Samuel Pepys (1881)
  • John Knox and his Relations to Women (1875)
• 1887 - Memories and Portraits (1887)
  a collection of essays
• 1887 - On the Choice of a Profession
• 1888 - Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
• 1890 - Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
  
• 1895 - Vailima Letters
• 1995 - The New Lighthouse on the Dhu Heartach Rock, Argyllshire
  Based on an 1872 manuscript edited by R.G. Swearingen
  California. Silverado Museum.
• 2008 - Sophia Scarlet
  Based on 1892 manuscript edited by Robert Hoskins
  AUT Media (AUT University).
• 1905 - Essays in the Art of Writing

Poetry

• 1885 - A Child's Garden of Verses
  written for children but also popular with their parents1887- Underwoods
  a collection of poetry written in both English and Scots
• 1891 - Ballads
  included Ticonderoga: A Legend of the West Highlands (1887)
  Based on a famous Scottish ghost story
• 1896 - Songs of Travel and Other Verses
• Poems Hitherto Unpublished
  3 vol. 1916, 1916, 1921, Boston Bibliophile Society, republished in New Poems

Travel writing

• 1878 - An Inland Voyage
  travels with a friend in a Rob Roy canoe
  from Antwerp (Belgium) to Pontoise, just north of Paris.
• 1878 - Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
  a paean to his birthplace
• 1879 - Travels with a Donkey in the C[ea]vennes
  two weeks' solo ramble (with Modestine as his beast of burden)
  in the mountains of Cévennes (south-central France), one of the first books to present hiking and camping as recreational activities
• 1883 - The Silverado Squatters
  An unconventional honeymoon trip to an abandoned mining camp in Napa Valley
  with his new wife Fanny and her son Lloyd
• 1879-1880 - Across the Plains published in 1892
  Second leg of his journey, by train from New York to California (then picks up with The Silverado Squatters). Also includes other travel essays.
• 1879–1880 - The Amateur Emigrant
  published 1895
  An account of the start of his journey to California
  by ship from Europe to New York
  
• 1882 - The Old and New Pacific Capitals
  An account of his stay in Monterey, California, August to December 1879
  Never published separately See, James D. Hart, ed., From Scotland to Silverado, 1966
• 1905 - Essays of Travel
  London: Chatto & Windus, 1905

Island literature

• 1896 - In the South Seas
  articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific
• A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa 1892

The Letters of Robert Lewis Stevenson

• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1
• The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 2

The Collected Works by Robert Lewis Stevenson

• 27 vols (all in IA - but not one set)