Published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the popular idea of the split personality.
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a
prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family
profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh
University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism
of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but
the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the
fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease
from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle
climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.
Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide are also published in one edition
in the Penguin English Library.
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