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"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde"
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Author (1)
by Sergio and Alessandro
(Italy)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish
essayist, poet and author of fiction and travel
books, known especially for his novels of adventure.
Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh
as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to
the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Since his
childhood Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. In
1867 he entered Edinburgh University to study
engineering, but changed to law and in 1875 he was
called to the Scottish bar. From the late 1880s
Stevenson lived with his family in the South Seas,
in Samoa. Fascinated by the Polynesian culture,
Stevenson wrote several letters to The Times on the
islanders' behalf and published novels like The
Beach Of Falesa (1893) and The Ebb-Tide (1894),
which condemned European colonial exploitation.
Stevenson died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima,
Samoa. His last work, Weir Of Hermiston (1896), was
left unfinished.
About the Author
(2)
by Karan Baweja and Jatin Baweja (India)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a
Scottish essayist, poet and author of fiction and
travel books, known especially for his novels of
adventure.
Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850 in Edinburgh
as the son of Thomas Stevenson, joint-engineer to
the Board of Northern Lighthouses. Since his
childhood Stevenson suffered from tuberculosis. In
1867 he entered Edinburgh University to study
engineering, but changed to law and in 1875 he was
called to the Scottish bar. During these years his
first works were published in The Edinburgh
University Magazine (1871) and The Portfolio (1873).
Instead of practicing law, Stevenson devoted himself
to writing travel sketches, essays, and short
stories for magazines. An account of his canoe tour
of France and Belgium was published in 1878 as An
Inland Voyage, and Travels With A Donkey In The
Cervennes appeared next year. In 1879 Stevenson
moved to California with Fanny Osbourne, whom he had
met in France. They married in 1880, and after a
brief stay at Calistoga, which was recorded in The
Silverado Squatters (1883), they returned to
Scotland, and then moved often in search of better
climates.
Stevenson became famous with the romantic adventure
story Treasure Island, which appeared in 1883. Among
his other popular works are Kidnapped (1886), The
Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1886) and
The Master Of Ballantrae (1889). He also contributed
to various periodicals, including The Cornhill
Magazine and Longman's Magazine, where his
best-known article "A Humble Remonstrance" was
published in 1884. It was a reply to Henry James's
'The Art of Fiction' and started a lifelong
friendship between the two authors.
From the late 1880s Stevenson lived with his family
in the South Seas, in Samoa. Fascinated by the
Polynesian culture, Stevenson wrote several letters
to The Times on the islanders' behalf and published
novels like The Beach Of Falesa (1893) and The
Ebb-Tide (1894), which condemned European colonial
exploitation.
Stevenson died on December 3, 1894, in Vailima,
Samoa. His last work, Weir Of Hermiston (1896), was
left unfinished.
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