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Despite lifelong ill health, he had immense vitality; Mark Twain said his eyes burned with \"smoldering rich fire.\" Born in Edinburgh to a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson set many stories in Scotland but sought travel and adventure in a life as romantic as his novels. \"I loved a ship,\" he wrote, \"as a man loves burgundy or daybreak.\" The adventures were shared with his free-spirited American wife, Fanny, with whom he moved to the South Pacific.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamoan friends named Stevenson \"Storyteller.\" Reading, he said, \"should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.\" His own books have been translated into dozens of languages. 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