Robert Louis Stevenson, the author is best known for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He is most widely read author in the world. He wrote everything plays, poems, essays on literary criticism and theory, travelogues, romances, adventure stories, fantasies, fables and short stories and he wrote in a manner which pulled the reader right into the world he strove hard to create. Very adventurous story, well created. Readers will surely enjoy the story. And though the critics might take a longer time to appreciate the literary genius of Stevenson works, for the common reader he remains a man with a hundred fascinating stories to tell a man whose words bring magic and wonder, and happiness to one who reads.