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Stevenson read authors like William Hazlitt and Daniel Defoe at the university and subsequently adopted their styles in his early writing. During his university years, Stevenson gained a reputation for outrageous behavior and earned the name "Velvet Jacket" for his unconventional style of dress. His parents were further disappointed when he discarded his plans to become an engineer and spent a good deal of his time at the university exploring the brothels and pubs of Edinburgh. However, while attending Edinburgh University, Stevenson denounced his Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself to be agnostic. Both works had a religious focus, reflecting the influence of his parents. At sixteen, his father published his first work, The Pentland Rising, an account of a 1666 rebellion by Covenanters.

After the competition, one of his uncles presented him with a prize for his history of Moses. He was six years old when he first displayed his literary talents during a competition against his cousins. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 13, 1850, to Thomas, a civil engineer, and Margaret Isabella (Balfour) Stevenson. Henry Jekyll creates "a work of extraordinary psychological depth and powerful impact." Author Biography Sanderson's judgment that the complex characterization of the tortured Dr. Most of Stevenson's readers would agree with Stewart F. This version became, with minor alterations, the published version of the text, with its compelling illustration of one man's futile attempts to weed out the evil inclinations of his soul. After a critical response from his wife, Stevenson threw the draft in the fire and started a new one that he completed in another three days and revised during the next six weeks. The next morning, Stevenson started to write a detective/horror story in the style of those written by Edgar Allan Poe, and three days later his draft was complete.

Hyde is based on the story of Edinburgh's infamous Deacon Brodie, who was discovered to have been living a double life, coupled with a dream Stevenson had one night, what he called "a fine bogey tale," about a man who drinks a potion made from a white powder and subsequently transforms into a devilish creature.

The novel has also earned accolades from the academic community for its artistic style and penetrating psychological themes. Hyde) became an immediate best-seller in Great Britain and America when it was published in 1886. Hyde (most commonly known by the shortened title Dr. Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural story The Strange Case of Dr.