This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

* Hispaniola from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Haggard wrote the novel as a result of a five-shilling wager with his brother, namely whether he could write a novel half as good as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ( 1883 ).

In the 1985 film The Goonies, an old treasure map leads to the secret stash of a legendary 17th century pirate, an almost exact imitation of Stevenson's plot in Treasure Island.

* References to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island were removed, as was the reference to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Doctor Livesey, a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's " Treasure Island ", is mentioned as having been in the Battle of Fontenoy some years before the book's plot takes place, and there are several references to his having been there throughout the book.

It precedes Stevenson's Treasure Island chronologically and includes the story of Nick Allardyce ( the last sailor murdered by Captain Flint ).

* 1956: The Adventures of Ben Gunn ( a companion novel to Stevenson's Treasure Island telling of events which occurred before that book begins )

Robert Louis Stevenson's work included the urban Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), and played a major part in developing the historical adventure in books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island.

Bartholomew Roberts is one of four pirate captains mentioned in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

In September he joined in a reading of R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island in Washington, D. C., and in October took part in a staged reading of a new play by Austin Pendleton entitled H6R3, which blends Shakespeare's plays Henry VI and Richard III.

The most famous literary reference to marooning probably occurs in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in which Ben Gunn is left marooned on the island for three years.

* Thomas Redruth is a character in R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island switches between third and first person, as do Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Vladimir Nabokov's The Gift.

The later form of squire as a gentleman appears in much English literature, for example in the form of Squire Trelawney in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island.

* Ben Gunn ( Treasure Island ), fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island

" Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther ... the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters ... were the property of Washington Irving.

Suwarrow was described by Fanny Vandegrift as " the most romantic island in the world ", but it was not the model for her husband Robert Louis Stevenson's famous book, Treasure Island.

It is reputed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's pirate novel Treasure Island.

* In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Long John Silver refers to the main character as having ' slept like a supercargo.

* Billy Bones, fictional first mate of Captain Flint in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island

* Ben Gunn ( Treasure Island ), fictional character in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

It was therefore not until the publication of J.H. Round's `` The Settlement Of The South And East Saxons '', and W.H. Stevenson's `` Dr. Guest And The English Conquest Of South Britain '', that a scientific basis for place-name studies was established.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ) was a classic Gothic work of the 1880s, seeing many stage adaptations.

He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.

Stevenson's failure to publicly launch his candidacy until the week of the convention meant that many liberal delegates who might have supported him were already pledged to Kennedy, and Stevenson — despite the energetic support of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt — was unable to break their allegiance to JFK.

He wrote an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for the Showtime network, which was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America award, and a Murder, She Wrote movie, Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For, which he produced.

To Stevenson's dismay, former president Truman endorsed Harriman, but the blow was softened by former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's continued support.

In addition, one member of Stevenson's 2nd / 3rd NNC, Corporal William Anderson, was killed by British fire while fleeing the station just prior to the arrival of the Zulus.

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

" The president even mused that the economy had gotten so bad and the Democratic party so divided that " the logical thing for me to do ... was to resign and hand the Executive branch to Mr. Stevenson ," joking that he would try to get his friends jobs in Stevenson's new cabinet.

Stevenson's son, Lewis G. Stevenson, was Illinois secretary of state ( 1914 – 1917 ).

Stevenson's grandson Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was the Democratic candidate for President of the United States in 1952 and 1956 and Governor of Illinois.

The depot, which was built in 1872 and listed in the National Register of Historic Places, stands on the ruins of Stevenson's first railroad depot, which was built around 1852 for common use by the Nashville Chattanooga and the Memphis & Charleston Railroads.

According to Robert Louis Stevenson, Stevenson's grandson, the Commissioners of Northern Lights paid Stevenson alone when the lighthouse was completed.

Wright was also angry at the media for what he felt was their overlooking of Stevenson's role in the creation of Spaced by connecting the series to Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz in news articles.

One of Stevenson's most recent works is producing Rise Against's sixth studio album, Endgame, which was released March 15, 2011, as well as the upcoming NOFX album Self Entitled.

The album was themed around the concept of " All ", which had been invented by Stevenson and friend Pat McCuistion during a fishing trip on Stevenson's boat Orca in 1980.

Soon Reeves became Stevenson's secretary and later was responsible for helping acts audition for the label.

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor.

This was taken over by Stevenson's of Spath in the mid 1980s and in turn was absorbed by Arriva.