One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Robert Louis Stevenson

4 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was born of cultured parents, November 13, 1850, in Edinburgh. From infancy his health was delicate. His schooling…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Enfield

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Condensation by IRVING BACHELLER MR. UTTERSON was a lawyer who…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Utterson

Mr. Utterson asked the name of the man. Enfield with some hesitation said, "His name is Hyde." "You see I don't ask you the name of the man…

Robert Louis Stevenson: Jekyll

To the butler Utterson said: "I saw Mr. Hyde go in by the old dissecting-room door, Poole. Is that right when Doctor Jekyll is away?"…

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