Robert Louis Stevenson was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 13th of November, 1850. As the son of a successful civil engineer he was expected to follow the family profession, but finally he was allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted violently against the Presbyterian respectability of the city´s professional classes and this led to painful clashes with his parents. When he was twenty-three he became afflicted with a severe respiratory illness from which he was to suffer for the rest of his life. It was at this time that he determind to become a writer. In 1879 he nearly killed himself travelling to California to marry Fanny Osbourne. Together they continued his search for a climate kind to his fragile health. His best-known novels, "Treasure Island" (1883) and "Kidnapped" (1886) are both products of this period, as is "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886), more commonly referred to as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Finally he settled with his family in Samoa, where he died of cerebral hemorrhage on the 3rd of December, 1894.

Other books: "The Master of Ballantrae" (1889)

"A Footnote to His

Mr. Edward Hyde: Dr. Jekyll, in becoming Mr. Hyde, is liberating himself. He sets himself free from moral restraint and becomes beast-like, subhuman and pure evil. After the change he was slighter, smaller and younger than Jekyll.

Dr. Hastie Lanyon: He was a gentleman with good manners, about 50 years old, and a lifelong friend and collegue of Dr. Jekyll. Utterson, Jekyll and Lanyon were very good friends.

Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, and his cousin, Mr. Enfield, were taking their customary Sunday morning walk in London, when they passed a gloomy house in a narrow street. Mr. Enfield told his companion that he had a frightening experience with an ugly-looking man who ran down a little girl at the doorway of the old building. His name was Hyde!

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