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Edinburgh was Robert Louis Stevenson’s birthplace. He lived there on and off for the first 29 years of his life, and continued to visit the city until 1887, after which time he left Scotland, and Europe, forever. Wherever he was, RLS often returned to Edinburgh imaginatively. He wrote about the city in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes (1878), and it was also a setting for Deacon Brodie (1880), Admiral Guinea (1884), “The Body Snatcher” (1884), Kidnapped (1886),“The Misadventures of John Nicholson” (1887), The Wrecker (1892), Catriona (1893), Weir of Hermiston and St Ives (1898).

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) may have traveled more than the characters in some of his critically acclaimed and world renowned novels. Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and traveling writer who wore classics like Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson was so accomplished that he was a celebrity during his lifetime, and he left an influence on great writers who followed him, including Hemingway and Kipling. At the same time, his works are easy enough to read that they can be taught in classrooms across the world to teenagers.

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes is the 1878 book by the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson. The book is a series of essays describing different areas of the town of Edinburgh Scotland. The areas are, Calton Hill, Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Morningside, New Town, Old Town, Parliament, and Pentlands. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.