‘Why, sir,’ said I, ‘if I knew where I was going, or what was likely to become of me, I would tell you candidly. ‘Are ye sorry to leave Essendean?’ said he, after awhile. ‘Well, Davie, lad,’ said he, ‘I will go with you as far as the ford, to set you on the way.’ And we began to walk forward in silence. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted and hearing that I lacked for nothing, he took my hand in both of his and clapped it kindly under his arm.
The sun began to shine upon the summit of the hills as I went down the road and by the time I had come as far as the manse, the blackbirds were whistling in the garden lilacs, and the mist that hung around the valley in the time of the dawn was beginning to arise and die away. Hyde was also first published in 1886 and met with tremendous success, selling 40,000 copies in six months and ensuring Stevenson’s fame as a writer.I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when I took the key for the last time out of the door of my father’s house. Both were adventure stories, the latter a historical novel set in Stevenson’s native Scotland and the former a tale of pirates set on the high seas. Stevenson had previously won widespread acclaim with Treasure Island in 1883 and followed it with Kidnapped in 1886. Hyde was dedicated to Stevenson’s cousin, Katharine de Mattos. The characters of Jekyll and Hyde have become proverbial, and the story has been relentlessly dramatised across various media, including plays, films and television serials, as well as being widely translated and reprinted in numerous editions. Stevenson claimed that the main events of the story came to him in a dream. Written in 1886 as a ‘shilling shocker’, the novella earned him worldwide success and critical acclaim. The exploration of moral ambiguity and duality in human nature are recurrent themes in Stevenson’s literature and there is no better or more famous example than The Strange Case of Dr. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, where he spent his early life and was enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1867 his Scottish heritage and time spent in Edinburgh would later permeate his writing.
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