The strange case of Dr. Kekyll

and Mr. Hyde

by

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson was born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of Thomas Stevenson, a successful engineer, and Margaret Balfour. They were both very religious. Robert gave up the religion of his parents while in his university years, but the teaching that he received as a child continued to influence him.

Although ill with tuberculosis from childhood, Stevenson had a full life. He began his education as an engineer (and his lighthouse designs were much praised). At the age of 18 he dropped the name Balfour and changed his middle name from Lewis to Louis (but retaining the original pronunciation); from this time on he began styling himself "RLS". He turned to the law because of poor health, but he never practiced. He ended as a tribal leader (called by his tribe Tusitala) and plantation owner in Samoa, all this in addition to his literary career.

Stevenson's novels of adventure, romance, and horror are of considerable psychological depth and have continued in popularity long after his death, both as books and as films.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll  and Mr. Hyde is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson about a lawyer, Charles Utterson, who investigates the strange link that the misanthropic man Edward Hyde has to his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll.

This novel has become a central concept in Western culture of the inner conflict of humanity's sense of good and evil. It has also been noted as an insightful allegory about the Victorian Era tendency for social hypocrisy. The story has been adopted in numerous stage and film productions.

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