Daiches, David. Robert Louis Stevenson and His World. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. A compact biographical and critical study by a leading critic of Scottish literature. This volume has ninety-nine illustrations.

Furnas, J. C. Voyage to Windward: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: William Sloane, 1951. The most thorough modern critical biography of Stevenson.

Hennessy, James Pope. Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. A more recent study of Stevenson, published posthumously after the author was murdered.

James, Henry. Literary Criticism, American and English. Edited by Leon Edel and Mark Wilson. New York: The Library of America, 1984. James was a major novelist and a close friend of Stevenson. His essays, "Robert Louis Stevenson" (1888) and "The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends" are insightful critical appreciations.

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