The Essential Robert Louis Stevenson Volume One
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and The Black Arrow
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Three beloved nineteenth-century classics featuring pirate adventures, sparring knights, and gothic chills. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: In this timeless gothic horror novella, the upstanding Dr. Jekyll is plagued by his association with the mysterious and murderous brute Mr. Hyde—until the shocking truth of the doctor's dual nature is revealed. Treasure Island: This classic adventure novel tells the story of young Jim Hawkins, who finds a treasure map and gets wrapped up in the devious plots of the notorious pirate Long John Silver. The Black Arrow: This romantic adventure novel, set in fifteenth-century England, follows the chivalrous Dick Shelton as he avenges his father's murder and saves his love, Joanna, with the help of a band of outlaws known as the Black Arrow.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.
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