Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

An avid reader of the works of Walt Whitman, Victor Hugo, Francois Villon, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, and fellow Scots Robert Burns and John Knox, Stevenson himself inspired many other authors including Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, and Peter Pan author James M. he avoids most of the snares and pitfalls of genius with noble and unconscious skill.-from 'Robert Louis Stevenson' (1895) by Sir Walter Raleigh. Hyde, have been adapted to the stage and screen and continue to be read today. It and numerous other of Stevenson's works populated by such memorable characters as Long John Silver, Captain Alexander Smollet, Billy Bones, and Dr. What was to be one of the world's most enduring stories of pirates sailing to exotic islands, singing 'Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!', one-legged sailors with parrots as pets, black spots signifying the fate of a man, dead-men's chests, and hidden treasure maps, Stevenson's Treasure Island was an immediate success and affirmed his passions for story telling and writing. Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.-Ch. I climbed a thousand times to that tall hill they call the Spy-glass, and from the top enjoyed the most wonderful and changing prospects. I brooded by the hour together over the map. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish poet, essayist, and author wrote Treasure Island (1883)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson