“The one common note of all this country is the haunting presence of the ocean. A great faint sound of breakers follows you high up into the inland cañons; the roar of water dwells in the clean, empty rooms of Monterey as in a shell upon the chimney; go where you will, you have but to pause and listen to hear the voice of the Pacific.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Old Pacific Capital”, via @gutenberg_org

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Monterey
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/614/pg614-images.html#page51

At the very end of August 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson arrived sick, exhausted, & almost penniless in California. We may well owe the existence of much of Stevenson’s work to the kindly (not to say life-saving) intervention of two Californian goat-ranchers …

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thCentury #Monterey #California

https://rlsclubmonterey.org/newsletter-articles/rls-and-the-goat-ranchers/

On a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses
#RobertLouisStevenson

“One advantage of the method that I propose is this, that while we are able to produce a plain intermittent light; an intermittent light of variable period, ranging from a brief flash to a steady illumination of half the revolution…”

One of Stevenson’s lesser-known publications, submitted to the Board of Northern Lights, 1870

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #lighthouse #engineering
https://digital.nls.uk/rlstevenson/browse/archive/99383648

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family business of lighthouse-building

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #poetry #lighthouse #engineering #RobertLouisStevenson

O Tusitala: Tellers of Tales
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 20–27 Aug 2023

This new one-person play by Samoan writer Sia Figiel tells, through the voices of never-before-heard indigenous characters, the extraordinary story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s household in 1890s Samoa

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #19thcentury #colonialism #postcolonial #drama

https://lyceum.org.uk/whats-on/production/o-tusitala

Can't stop the #BookWeek at https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy
Tonight Sam's back with some Year One favourites! We've got Dickens, Stevenson, Middleton, Nesbitt, and maybe more if there's time? Come and find a new story to love!
@bookstodon

#Audiobook #ReadingAloud #TheSignalMan #CharlesDickens #TheBodySnatcher #RobertLouisStevenson #ManSizeInMarble #EdithNesbitt #TheGhostShip #RichardMiddleton #cozy

“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers” – available online via @gutenberg_org

@bookstodon

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #NationalLazyDay

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825

“the war game was constantly improved and elaborated, until from a few hours ‘war’ took weeks to play, and the critical operations in the attic monopolized half our thoughts.”

—from “Stevenson at Play”, by Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner’s Magazine, December 1898

#RobertLouisStevenson & #wargames

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #games #boardgames #toysoldiers

Read the article online here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline/rlstext.html

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs: upon so many reefs and forelands that not very elegant name of Stevenson is engraved with a pen of iron upon granite.”
—From MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – available online via the Hathi Trust
2/2
#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #memoir #autobiography #RobertLouisStevenson

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

Robert Louis Stevenson & 19th-Century French Literature

Dr Kate Ashley shows how #France contributed to the evolution of Stevenson’s art, & how #RobertLouisStevenson became a model of artistic innovation in France

#Scottish #French #FrancoScottish #literature for #BastilleDay 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
3/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blozuNjkdX0

“a wayward, inconsequential journey and a strange love affair (with a donkey)”

Robert McCrum picks Robert Louis Stevenson’s Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes as one of the 100 best nonfiction books

#Scottish #FrancoScottish #literature for #BastilleDay 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#RobertLouisStevenson
1/3
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/06/r-l-stevenson-travels-with-a-donkey-in-the-cevennes-nonfiction-review-mccrum

STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE premieres at #Edinburgh International Film Festival

This feature #film #adaptation by Hope Dickson Leach & Vlad Butucea will receive its world premiere on 21 Aug & will be broadcast on Sky Arts later this year

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #RLS #JekyllandHyde #cinema

https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/the-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-premieres-at-eiff-2023

Useless quote for 6 July:

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882

#UselessQuote #RobertLouisStevenson

El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson

"En 1886, mucho antes de que Sigmund Freud definiera conceptos como ego y ello (id), Robert Louise Stevenson publicó una novela de corte gótico, El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde, en la que indagaba en la doble personalidad y en los conflictos internos que arrastramos todos los seres humanos."

https://www.zendalibros.com/el-extrano-caso-del-dr-jekyll-y-mr-hyde-de-robert-louis-stevenson/

#zenda #drjekyllmrhyde #RobertLouisStevenson

Disfigurement & #disability in #Gothic #literature: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Jen Campbell examines how #19thcentury beliefs about disability, physical appearance & character are presented in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson
@litstudies

https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/disfigurement-and-disability-in-gothic-literature

CFP: Intertextual Stevenson
RLS2024 – Ruhr University Bochum, 27–29 June 2024

Exploring how #RobertLouisStevenson used, adopted & responded to texts by other writers, & how other writers used, adopted & responded to texts by him. The term text will be interpreted broadly & papers on #film, #graphicnovels etc. will be welcome.
#CFP #Scottish #literature #conference #19thCentury #20thCentury
@litstudies
https://edrls.wordpress.com/2023/05/01/rls2024-intertextual-stevenson/

Non chiedo ricchezze, né speranze, né amore, né un amico che mi comprenda; tutto quello che chiedo è il cielo sopra di me e una strada ai miei piedi.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

#RobertLouisStevenson #strada #quoteoftheday #30Aprile

Trigésimo primer episodio de la primera temporada de FICCIÓPATAS.

📚¡FELIZ DÍA DEL LIBRO!📚

Hoy destripamos «El diablo de la botella» de Robert Louis Stevenson, uno de los relatos más icónicos del autor escocés. Estamos ante el autor de «La isla del tesoro» y «El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde», entre muchas otras obras. En «El diablo de la botella» veremos el estilo propio del escritor y hablaremos sobre sus influencias y, por supuesto, sobre qué nos ha parecido el relato y cómo ha envejecido desde la primera vez que lo leímos, hace ya casi tres décadas. Todo esto, y más, en el episodio de hoy.

¿Conoces al autor? ¿Has leído algo de él? Háznoslo saber en los comentarios. 🧐

Podéis escuchar el Episodio 31 de Ficciópatas:
- en iVoox a través de este enlace https://go.ivoox.com/rf/106011576
- en YouTube en https://youtu.be/uxqnZfOzzEw
- o a través de https://linktr.ee/ficciopatas para el resto de plataformas.

En el siguiente episodio destriparemos: «Al borde del llanto» de Jean Ferry.

Gracias siempre por vuestro apoyo. ¡Feliz domingo! 😉🖖🏼

#ficciopatas #podcast #spanishwriters #victormorata #ericluna #victormorataescritor #ericlunaescritor #victormoratawriter #ericlunawriter #relatoscortos #bookstagram #bookstagramespaña #escribirficcion #escrituracreativa #relatos #escribirficcion #youtube #saltoalaudiovisual #destripamosrelatos #relatosdeloinesperado #eldiablodelabotella #RobertLouisStevenson #RLStevenson #Thebottleimp #jeanferry #Elmaquinistayotroscuentos #albordedelllanto #anagrama #anagramacompendium #malpaso
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrXilZ_oZNj/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

#Lies #RobertLouisStevenson #Quotes #Panorama #Bot

Aquí un pequeño avance de lo que se viene este domingo en FICCIÓPATAS. Feliz miércoles.😉🖖🏼

#victormorata #ericluna #victormorataescritor #ericlunaescritor #victormoratawriter #ericlunawriter #siervosdelaguadaña #elartedemantenerseaflote #ficciopatas #ficciopataspodcast #podcasting #robertlouisstevenson #rlstevenson #thebottleimp #eldiablodelabotella #avancepodcast #trailer #avance #fedeerratas #destripandohistorias
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrNFmwioTL0/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=