It was in 1876, whilst travelling in France, that he met Fanny Osbourne, a 36-year-old American woman who had fled a philandering husband with her two children. His first major publications were books of travel writing An Inland Voyage(1878) was based upon a canoe journey along canals in Belgium and northern France, and Travels with a Donkey (1879) was derived from his walking trip in the Cévennes region of France. He never practised, turning instead to authorship with essays in The Cornhill Magazine in 18. Stevenson studied law at Edinburgh University and was admitted to the bar in 1875. Her stern Protestantism and fund of folk-tales are often cited as major sources of inspiration. The only child of Thomas Stevenson, engineer and lighthouse builder, and Margaret Balfour, daughter of a Scottish clergyman, he was largely raised by his nanny, Alison Cunningham (known as ‘Cummy’). Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on Friday 13 December 1850. In the same spirit, because the pleasures of reading are inseparable from the surprises, secrets and revelations that all narratives contain, we strongly advise you to enjoy this book before turning to the Introduction. We commissioned teachers and specialists to write broad-ranging, jargon-free Introductions and to provide Notes that would assist the understanding of our readers, rather than interpret the stories for them.
Wordsworth Classics are inexpensive editions designed to appeal to the general reader and students. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Is the author showing a split personality, the effect of mental illness, or is this a commentary on the rules of Victorian society? However one looks at it, this is a brilliant story about mind and body separation. Part of the significance of this story is that it can be interpreted in different ways. Hyde is very much a Victorian product showing man’s quest for keeping his animal nature suppressed and only showing the world the world a stiff, tightly controlled facade. Although this seems a rather mild story by today’s standards, it’s simplicity reveals a timeless classic of murder and monsters on the streets of Victorian London.The Strange Case of Dr. The other theme that comes immediately to mind is the familiar one of science going too far. Jekyll’s struggles to keep his “bad side”, Mr. Two of it’s main themes are the classic “good versus evil” story line as we read of Dr. This story has captured the attention of many generations and has a lasting quality that has kept it and, it’s many versions, in the forefront of the literary world.The author tells his chilling story with the use of both descriptive and powerful language. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novella that was first published in 1886.
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