ROBERT LOUIS STEVENS

Robert Louis Stevenson began writing during the Victorian era. His style was unlike anyone else’s and his stories are still popular today. Robert Louis Stevenson was an author of many classic novels and his literary success became popular when he wrote the mystery called The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886 at the young age of thirty-six. He …

…too obviously colored with easy terror to be completely convincing” (435). “The London Times” in 1886 declares The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be an “original genius,” (398). Robert Louis Stevenson was a genius. He was an author who demonstrates eloquence in his style of writing and creativity and imagination in his story themes. One hundred years later Stevenson’s stories are part of our history of classic novels that are read by all.