In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child's Garden of Verses and wrote the novels Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
An intriguingcombination of fantast thriller and moral allegory, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicts the gripping struggle of twoopposingpersonalities - one essentially good, the otherevil - for the soul of one man. Itstingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveals Stevenson as a writer of greatskill and originality, whose power to terrify and move us remains, over a centurylater, undiminished