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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By
Robert Louis Stevenson
Школска 2015/2016. година
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CONTENTS
1. Robert Louis Stevenson
1.1.
Biography………………………………………...2
1.2.
Bibliography……………………………………...5
2. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2.1.
Introduction……………………...……………….7
2.2.
About the novel…………………………………..7
2.3.
Story of the Door……............................................8
2.4.
Search for Mr. Hyde……………………...………9
2.5.
Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease……………………..10
2.6.
The Carew Murder Case……………...………….10
2.7.
Incident of the Letter………………………….….11
2.8.
Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon……………...12
2.9.
Incident at the Window……………………...……13
2.10. The Last Night……………………………...…13
2.11. Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative…………….………….15
2.12. Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case…….16
3. Conclusion
…………………………………………………….17
4. Literature and sources
……………………………………….18
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In his 1887 poetry collection
Underwoods
, Stevenson muses his turning from the family
profession:
Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit,
To play at home with paper like a child.
But rather say:
In the afternoon of time
A strenuous family dusted from its hands
The sand of granite, and beholding far
Along the sounding coast its pyramids
And tall memorials catch the dying sun,
Smiled well content, and to this childish task
Around the fire addressed its evening hours.
As Stevenson inherited weak chests from his mother, he began suffering from severe
respiratory problems, in his early twenties. In an attempt to relieve his symptoms, he spent
much of his life travelling to warmer countries.
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While living in France in 1876 he met his future wife, Mrs. Fanny Osbourne, a woman ten
years his senior. He followed her to California by emigrant ship in 1879 and they later
married after her divorce was finalized.
Stevenson’s early published works,
An Inland Voyage
(1878) and
Travels with a Donkey in
the Cevennes
(1879), were based on his own adventures and followed by a constant stream of
articles and essays.
However, his first full-length work of fiction,
Treasure Island
, appeared
in 1883.
The recognition Stevenson had received from
Treasure Island
grew with the publication of
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
and
Kidnapped
in 1886.
In 1888 he took his family to the South Seas in search of a climate more conducive to his
condition. Settling in Samoa, he gained a reputation as a story-teller.
He died on 3th December 1894.
