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Today, November 13, 2010 Google is celebrating the birthday of a very famous author, poet and essay writer, Robert Louis Stevenson by introducing a new Google Doodle that will be seen throughout the day, today.Stevenson was born in Scotland in the year 1850 and he chose his writing genre, travel. Maximum of his books are based on travel. The new doodle is based on his novel known as ‘The Master of Ballantrae’. It was set in the backgrounds of India, America and Scotland.
Some of the other works of Stevenson include Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Prince Otto, Kidnapped, Catriona and the Treasure Island. The last one is one of the very famous works of the writer that got published in the year 1883.
The Treasure Island was initially meant to be published in the ‘Young Folks’, a children’s magazine in 1981-82. The title of the book had one more competitor before the writer zeroed on this one. ‘The Mutiny of the Hispaniola and the Pseudonym Captain George North’ too was being considered for the title.
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