Dr. Jelyll and Mr. Hyde

Author: DalmatianPress
Publisher: Not available
Publish Date: 2004-10-11
Features: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850, into a family of prosperous lighthouse and harbor engineers, and young Robert was expected to pursue his father's profession. Robert indeed loved the sea but not engineering. In fact, Robert seemed to stay out of step with his strict, Presbyterian, respectable family almost from the start. His frail health often kept him in bed where he filled his time with books. He was a questioner and a thinker, pondering human nature and the divisions of good and evil, and was considered unacceptably rebellious by his straight-laced father and family. Stevenson's career soared, but his health continued to fail. He and Fanny moved to the restorative climate of Hawaii, and then to the sunny, tropical South Pacific island of Samoa where he was known as Tusitala—the Teller of Tales. There Stevenson died in 1894, at the age of 44, and was buried on a hillside overlooking the sea he loved. His epitaph, taken from his poem, "Requiem," reads: Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.