In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised <i>A Child&#39;s Garden of Verses</i> and wrote the novels <i>Kidnapped</i> and <i>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i>.<br />An intriguing combination of fantast thriller and moral allegory, <i>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities &mdash; one essentially good, the other evil &mdash; for the soul of one man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man&#39;s dual nature reveals Stevenson as a writer of great skill and originality, whose power to terrify and move us remains, over a century later, undiminished.