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There's a sinister man about London town with something of the night about him. Mr Hyde is mad, bad and has a penchant for bumping off MPs and other kindly innocents. Will his friend Dr Jekyll be able to stop him? Or is there something more to their relationship than meets the eye...? Only the intrepid Utterson can get to the bottom of this mystery, but what will he find in Dr Jekyll's lab?
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
No More Mr Nice Guy…
There’s a sinister man about London town with something of the night about him. Mr Hyde is mad, bad and has a penchant for bumping off MPs and other kindly innocents. Will his friend Dr Jekyll be able to stop him? Or is there something more to their relationship than meets the eye…? Only the intrepid Utterson can get to the bottom of this mystery, but what will he find in Dr Jekyll’s lab?
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson at 8 Howard Place, Edinburgh, on 13 November 1850 to Margaret Isabella Balfour (1829–1897) and Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), a leading lighthouse engineer. An only child, strange-looking and eccentric, Stevenson found it hard to fit in when he was sent to a nearby school at age six, a problem repeated at age eleven when he went on to the Edinburgh Academy.
In November 1867, Stevenson entered the University of Edinburgh to study engineering. He showed from the start no enthusiasm for his studies and devoted much energy to avoiding lectures. In April 1871, Stevenson notified his father of his decision to pursue a life of letters. To provide some security, it was agreed that Stevenson should read Law.
Stevenson began to move away from his upbringing. His dress became more Bohemian; he wore his hair long and took to wearing a velveteen jacket. Within the limits of a strict allowance, he visited cheap pubs and brothels. More importantly, he had come to reject Christianity and declared himself an atheist. However, much like his father, Stevenson remained a staunch Tory for most of his life.
On a canoe voyage to Grez, in September 1876, Stevenson met Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne (1840–1914). In 1877 they became lovers and Stevenson spent much of the following year with her and her children in France. After a period of deathly illness, through which Fanny nursed him, Robert married Fanny in May 1880.
For the next seven years, between 1880 and 1887, Stevenson searched in vain for a place of residence suitable to his state of health. In the wintertime, Stevenson travelled to France and lived at Davos-Platz and the Chalet de Solitude at Hyères, In summer, he inhabited various places in Scotland and England, including Westbourne, Dorset. It was during his time in Bournemouth that he wrote the storyStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, naming one of the characters (Mr Poole) after the town of Poole.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hydewas an immediate success and is one of Stevenson’s best-selling works. Stage adaptations began in Boston and London and soon moved all across England and then towards his home Scotland. By 1901 it was estimated to have sold over 250,000 copies.
In 1890 Stevenson purchased a tract of about 400 acres in Upolu, an island in Samoa. He took the native name Tusitala (Samoan for ‘Teller of Tales’). On 3rd December 1894, at forty four years old, Stevenson died, quite suddenly, probably of a cerebral hemorrhage. The Samoans insisted on bearing their Tusitala upon their shoulders to nearby Mount Vaea, where they buried him on a spot overlooking the sea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
David Mannis an artist and illustrator who studied illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. He has previously illustrated for both publishers and corporate clients. He lives in Hertfordshire.
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
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