By Robert Louis Stevenson (author) Part of the Dyslexia-Friendly Classics series
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Stevenson's classic "shilling shocker" has remained in the public imagination for well over a century, spawning numerous adaptations. Now available in an accessible format for all readers.
"Man is not truly one, but truly two."
A terrible killer lurks in London's dark and foggy corners. His crimes are witnessed, but no one can track him down. At the same time, the respectable Dr Jekyll is on a quest of his own.
But Dr Jekyll's discoveries look set to unleash an appalling truth. Just how closely entwined is his identity with that of brutish Mr Hyde?
Robert Louis Stevenson was born to Thomas and Margaret Isabella Balfour Stevenson in Edinburgh on 13 November 1850. From the beginning he was sickly. Through much of his childhood he was attended by his faithful nurse, Alison Cunningham, known as Cummy in the family circle. She told him morbid stories about the Covenanters (the Scots Presbyterian martyrs), read aloud to him Victorian penny-serial novels, Bible stories, and the Psalms, and drilled the catechism into him, all with his parents' approval. Thomas Stevenson was quite a storyteller himself, and his wife doted on their only child, sitting in admiration while her precocious son expounded on religious dogma. Stevenson inevitably reacted to the morbidity of his religious education and to the stiffness of his family's middle-class values, but that rebellion would come only after he entered Edinburgh University.
The juvenilia that survives from his childhood shows an observer who was already sensitive to religious issues and Scottish history. Not surprisingly, the boy who listened to Cummy's religious tales first tried his hand at retelling Bible stories: "A History of Moses" was followed by "The Book of Joseph." When Stevenson was sixteen his family published a pamphlet he had written entitled The Pentland Rising, a recounting of the murder of Nonconformist Scots Presbyterians who rebelled against their royalist persecutors.
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde : Dyslexia-friendly Classics was written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Barrington Stoke an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde : Dyslexia-friendly Classics has 203 pages
Yes it is part of Dyslexia-Friendly Classics series
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