Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on Friday 13 December 185o. The only child of Thomas Stevenson, engineer and lighthouse builder, and Margaret Balfour, daughter of a Scottish clergyman, he was largely raised by his nanny, Alison Cunningham (known as 'Cummy'). Her stern Protestantism and fund of folk-tales are often cited as major sources of inspiration. Stevenson studied law at Edinburgh University and was admitted to the bar in 1875. ……

In seeking to discover his inner self the brilliant Dr.Henry lekyll discovers a monster. First published to immediate acclaim in 1886 this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of mans nature, and it is the book which established Stevensons reputuation as a writer.

Also included in this volume is Stevensons 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. The volume contains The Meny Men, a gripping Highland tale of shipwrecks and madness: Markheim, the sinister study of the mind of a murderer; Thrawn lanet, a spine-chilling tale of demonic possession; Olalla, a study of degeneration and incipient vampirism in the Spanish mountains; Will O the Mill,a thought-provoking fable about a mountain inn-keeper; and The Treasure of Franchard, a study of French bourgeois life.

INTRODUCTION

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

Story of the Door

Search for Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll was quite at Ease

The Carew Murder Case

Incident of the Letter

Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon

Incident at the Window

The Last Night

Dr Lanyon"s Narrative

Henry Jekyll"s Full Statement of the Case

THE MERRY MEN AND OTHER TALES AND FABLES

THE MERRY MEN

Eilean Aros

What the Wreck bad brought to Aros

Land and Sea in Sandag Bay

The Gale

A Man out of the Sea

WILL O"THE MILL

The Plain and the Stars

The Parson"s Marjory

Death

MARKHEIM

THRAWN JANET

OLALLA

THE TREASURE OF FRANCHARD

By the Dying Mountebank

Morning Talk

The Adoption

The Education of a Philosopher

Treasure Trove

A Criminal Investigation, in Two Parts

The Fall of the House of Desprez

The Wages of Philosophy

NOTES

GLOSSARY