Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson is a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer who created the children’s novel Treasure Island, and of the horror story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His whole work is based on a key theme is the impossibility of identifying and separating good from evil. His writing relies on visual effects, and on numerous narrators and points of views.

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Dedication

Robert Louis Stevenson

My first gift and my last, to you I dedicate this fascicle of songs– The only wealth I have: Just as they are, to you.
I speak the truth in soberness, and say I had rather bring a light to ... [+]

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My Shadow

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me ... [+]