Robert Louis Stevenson

(Edinburgh, 1850 - Vailima Upolu, Samoa , 1894).

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. He has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."

First published in English in 1886 is about a lawyer, Gabriel John Utterson, who investigates the strange link between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The book is known to be a vivid representation of psychopathology for a split personality. The illustrations in this edition are by Marta Gómez-painted, illustrated in this same collection of Alice in Wonderland.

"Stevenson, who opened the way to the worlds of Pessoa and Borges, explores a kind of writing, style and construction, allowing you to keep the poles together with their networks opposing ends and opposite." Enrique Vila-Mata