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Respectable citizen by day... killer by night? This is Robert Louis Stevenson s harrowing tale of good and evil caught in the same person. The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a shilling shocker in 1886, and became an instant classic. Recommended in Seton Home Study Grade 12, Seton High School English Grade 12 Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Format: 112 pages, paperback Publisher: Random House ISBN: 9780553212778