Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (author) (UK edition)

Stevenson’s classic story of split personalities lurking beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society. Now available in an accessible format for all readers.

Product Details

Catalogue number

8244 in Schools Catalogue 2024–25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781781127407

Publisher

Barrington Stoke Ltd

Date published

August 3rd, 2017

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 9.5; Upper years; 5.0 points

Other details

216 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

6books
Barrington Stoke Classics Pk

eur prices

Price: €54.10

gbp prices

Price: £41.60

Author/Illustrator

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. He suffered from illness throughout his life and had to spend large parts of his childhood in bed. As a result, he didn’t learn to read until he was seven or eight, but he loved to tell stories to his mother and nurse. Robert loved to travel and he spent a lot of time in his twenties travelling in Europe and writing about his experiences. When he was 26, Robert met an American woman called Fanny. They married in San Francisco in1880 and returned to Britain with Fanny’s twelve-year-old son Lloyd. That same year, during a rainy holiday in Scotland, Robert and Lloyd drew a treasure map for fun and it was this that inspired Robert to write Treasure Island. When the book was published in 1883 he dedicated it to Lloyd. In 1888 the family set off for a three-year-long tour of the South Pacific which eventually ended when they bought a house in Samoa. Robert was loved by the Samoan people and continued to write until the day he died, very suddenly, aged just 44.