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...the wealthy made their homes) and the mazy, dark, and nefarious Old Town—gave rise to literary metaphors for the human condition and provided Stevenson with his major inspiration for Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In turn, Stevenson’s story continues to be an inspiration to contemporary authors. My own first crime novel, Knots and Crosses, was (in...
...There he got to know and love the American novelist Henry James. There he revised A Child’s Garden (first published in 1885) and wrote “Markheim,” Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The poems in A Child’s Garden represent with extraordinary fidelity an adult’s recapturing of the emotions and sensations of childhood; there is...
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