LOUIS STEVENSON, ROBERT / STEVENSON
Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him.Who is the man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very repectable Dr Jekyll?
Robert Louis Stevenson (Edimburgo, 1850 - Vailima, Samoa, 1894), lúcido ensayista literario,sensible poeta y uno de los narradores más puros de la literatura universal. Stevenson no quiso ser ingeniero y empezóa estudiar Derecho. Poco después descubriría que su verdadera vocación era la escritura. En 1882, con el nombre deNuevas noches árabes, publicó reunidos diversos relatos que habían ido apareciendo en varias revistas desde 1877. Enesa época, daría comienzo una prolífica etapa en la que verían la luz algunas de sus mejores obras de ficción: La isladel tesoro (1883), El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (1886), Secuestrado (1886), La flecha negra (1888) y Elbarón de Ballantrae (1889).
