BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE JULY 2017 - SCOTTISH AUTHORS / THE STEVENSONS

D.E. STEVENSON

R.L. STEVENSON

BOOKS BY D.E. STEVENSON

Series
Mrs. Tim
1. Mrs. Tim of the Regiment (1932)
2. Mrs. Tim Carries on (1941)
3. Mrs. Tim Gets a Job (1947)
4. Mrs. Tim Flies Home (1952)


Miss Buncle
1. Miss Buncle's Book (1934)
2. Miss Buncle Married (1936)
3. The Two Mrs. Abbotts (1943)
Miss Buncle (omnibus) (1964)


Ryddelton
1. Celia's House (1943)
2. Listening Valley (1944)


Drumberley
1. Vittoria Cottage (1949)
2. Music in the Hills (1950)
3. Winter and Rough Weather (1951)
aka Shoulder the Sky


Ayrton Family
1. Amberwell (1955)
2. Summerhills (1956)


Bel Lamington
1. Bel Lamington (1961)
2. Fletcher's End (1962)


Katherine
1. Katherine Wentworth (1964)
2. Katherine's Marriage (1965)
aka The Marriage Of Katherine


Sarah Morris
1. Sarah Morris Remembers (1967)
2. Sarah's Cottage (1968)


Gerald Burleigh Brown
1. Gerald and Elizabeth (1969)
2. The House of the Deer (1970)


Novels
Peter West (1923)
Golden Days (1934)
The Young Clementina (1935)
aka Divorced From Reality
The Empty World (1936)
aka A World in Spell
The Rosabelle Shaw (1937)
aka The Story of Rosabelle Shaw
Miss Bun, the Baker's Daughter (1938)
aka Baker's Daughter
Smouldering Fire (1938)
The Green Money (1939)
The English Air (1940)
Rochester's Wife (1940)
Spring Magic (1942)
The Four Graces (1946)
Kate Hardy (1947)
Young Mrs. Savage (1948)
Five Windows (1953)
Charlotte Fairlie (1954)
aka Blow the Wind Southerly / The Enchanted Isle
The Tall Stranger (1957)
Anna and Her Daughters (1958)
Still Glides the Stream (1959)
The Musgraves (1960)
The Blue Sapphire (1963)
The House on the Cliff (1966)
Crooked Adam (1969)
Emily Dennistoun (2011)
The Fair Miss Fortune (2011)

BOOKS BY R.L. STEVENSON


Series
Adventures of David Balfour
1. Kidnapped (1886)
2. Catriona (1893)


Novels
Treasure Island (1883)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
The Black Arrow (1888)
The Wrong Box (1889) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Wrecker (1892) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
The Ebb Tide (1894) (with Lloyd Osbourne)
Weir of Hermiston (1896)
The Master of Ballantrae (1897)
St. Ives (1897) (with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch)
A Lowden Sabbath Morn (1898)
The Sea Fogs (1907)
Will O' The Mill (1915)
The Beach of Falesa (1963)
Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin (2002)


Omnibus
Three Musketeers / King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table / Adventures of Robin Hood / Treasure Island (2010) (with Roger Lancelyn Green)


Collections
New Arabian Nights (1882)
The Merry Men (1887)
Underwoods (poems) (1887)
Ballads (poems) (1890)
Island Nights' Entertainments (1893)
The Body Snatcher (1895)
The Suicide Club (1895)
Songs of Travel (poems) (1896)
Virginibus Puerisque (1901)
The Story of a Lie (1904)
Tales and Fantasies (1905)
New Poems and Variant Readings (poems) (1918)
A Child's Garden of Verses (1921)
Moral Emblems and Other Poems (poems) (1921)
Selected Writings (1947)
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (1964)
The Supernatural Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson (1976)
Weir of Hermiston and Other Stories (1979)
The Lantern-Bearers (1988)


Picture Books
The Wakey Wakey Machine (1997) (with Alan MacDonald)


Non fiction
Travels With A Donkey in the Cevennes (1879)
The Old and New Pacific Capitals (1880)
The Silverado Squatters (1884)
Memories and Portraits (1887)
Across the Plains (1892)
A Footnote to History (1892)
Vailima Letters (1896)
In the South Seas Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotur And Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises, On the Yacht 'casco' (1888) And the Schooner 'equator' (1889) (1900)
The Meaning Of Friendship (1909)
The Amateur Emigrant (1988)

What I shall read.

Here I hesitate as my reading output has been so pathetic in the last couple of months. I always plan away at least!

D.E. STEVENSON

Miss Buncle's Book



Robert Louis Stevenson

The Master of Ballantrae

>6 PaulCranswick: I read Miss Buncle's Book a couple of years ago and was charmed by it.

I'm almost finished with RL Stevenson's Travels With A Donkey in the Cevennes and am greatly enjoying his travels and tribulations with his donkey Modestine.

I hope to read Miss Buncle, Married and Travels With a Donkey in the Cevannes.

I've finished Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, which was quite fun. It slows down a bit in the second half, but the elan with which Stevenson describes everything from his battles with his donkey to his attempts to avoid conversion at a Trappist monastery more than make up for the slow bits.

I finished D. E. Stevenson's Celia's House this morning. A very pleasant read.

Like Amanda, I read Miss Buncle's Book in recent years, and was charmed by it. A local theater company did a very good play adaptation of it last year. I also read those two that come after Miss Buncle, and two of the Mrs. Tim books. D.E. Stevenson is another one of those happy finds for me courtesy of Librarything's book warblers.

There's a 4th Miss Buncle book called The Four Graces that I haven't read yet.

Isn't it such a shame that Robert Louis' life was so short lived? To think what he could have gone on to achieve.

>11 jnwelch: I remember you being a fan of D.E. Stevenson, Joe.

My daughter was fanatical about R. L. Stevenson at one time--I think several of her copies of his work are still in the house. I think I'll check that out, and select one of his to read. Although I'm familiar with many of his stories, I don't think it's from reading any of them!

I have a copy of Miss Buncle's Book so will be reading it for this month. I ran across my copy of it last night while putting away some other books. It was a Christmas Swap gift from this last year and I am looking forward to reading it. I will also be listening to Treasure Island in my car.

I found Miss Buncle's Book charming and will read the next in the series Miss Buncle Married.

>1 PaulCranswick:

Lovely tartan!

Any chance you could print one of the "Bells of the Border?"

And, if Belle collects literary references to her name,
Alec Ramsey's Mom
in THE BLACK STALLION is a Belle.

Mrs. Tim Christie is so damn charming that I don't care that nothing really happens. The first half is slow and is better taken in small chunks but the second half can be devoured in no time.

I read Kidnapped for the first time. David Balfour's adventures in overcoming the treachery and greed of his Uncle Ebenezer, the hazards of shipwreck, hunger and redcoats, are fun to read about, but I did have a bit of trouble with suspension of disbelief. The story has a good many holes in it that young readers of a century or more ago would probably not have noticed or minded. Great swashbuckling stuff, though.

I stumbled upon the Dutch translation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the library yesterday, so I have starred the thread and will report later.

 De zonderlinge geschiedenis van dr Jekyll en mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson

Picked this one up at the library, to find out back home that we have a copy in our own library.

London, 19th century, Mr. Utterson, an attorney, tells us the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I had never realised the book is a kind of mystery, not the horror story I was expecting. It is about good and evil, that is in every human. It deals with an escalated experiment to divide the good and the evil in one person.

It was a good, not great, read.

I think I have a Miss Buncle book (in lovely Persephone edition) so maybe I'll read that this month.

I enjoyed the first Miss Buncle book and the second installment Miss Buncle Married was almost as good. Miss Buncle is now married but hasn't changed much. She is still getting into trouble as only she can. I will have to see if the third book in the series holds up.

Oh, and I completely forgot that I read an other Stevenson book at the start of this month:

 the Dutch translation of Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

In 1878 Stevenson travels nearly 200 kilometer in 12 days through the Cévennes with a donkey he named Modestine.
In the early 18th century there was a religious war in the Cevennes when king Louis XIV violently suppressed protestants (Huguenots). Stevenson himself is a protestant and tells the reader a lot about these troublesome times.

This book was originally published in 1879, the first Dutch translation was published in 2008.

Fun fact, near the end of his journey Stevenson travels through the tiny village Saint Etienne de Vallée Française, in 1972 we spend 3 weeks there, our very first holiday in France :-)

I finally read Treasure Island. Great writing, although some of the seafaring language was beyond me. Great writing, and what an interesting character Long John Silver is.

Finished Mrs Tim of the Regiment which is a charming read. What wonderful descriptions of Scotland and its people. A witty, warm-hearted and peaceful way to finish out 2017 and start 2018.