ABOUT THE AUTHOR
'The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde' is written
by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson was born in
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, in 1850 and died in 1894.
He grew up in a wealthy, middle-class Scottish family.
His father and uncles were designers and builders of
lighthouses and the Stevensons were well-known figures
in the fashionable bourgeois circles of the time.
Although as a young man he rebelled against his strict
father as well as against the hypocrisy of the
Edinburgh bourgeois mentality, the Calvinist sense of
sin and the stern belief that evil lurks everywhere
and cannot be conquered, influenced Stevenson's life.
As a child Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. In
order to relieve Stevenson's sickbed his father often
told him exiting stories about long journeys and
dangerous adventures. After a good deal of unnoticed
short stories, 'Treasure Island' was published in
1883. This classic adventure story brought Stevenson
fame. 'Kidnapped' confirmed his reputation as a writer
of unputdownable adventure stories.
By now a critically and commercially writer, Stevenson
and his wife sailed from San Francisco to the Islands
Of The South Pacific in 1888. He overcame his illness
while in the tropics and delighted in the Marquesas
Islands, Honolulu and Samoa, which he described in 'A
Footnote To History' and 'In The South Seas'. Samoa
became his permanent home in 1890 and he died there,
before completing what many critics have called his
finest work 'Weir Of Hermiston'.


STORY
'The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde was first
published in 1886. It contains 75 pages. The story is
told chronologically and sometimes there are
flash-backs.
The story of 'Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde' came to Stevenson
in a dream. One night, when his wife Fanny had to wake
him from a terrible nightmare, he reacted with
irritation. He had been in the middle of 'a fine bogy
tale'. He wrote it down on the spot, with all the gory
details, because he thought it would...








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