![]() ![]() I remember the first reading as though it were yesterday. Lloyd Osbourne, Stevenson's stepson, wrote: "I don't believe that there was ever such a literary feat before as the writing of Dr. He said angrily: "Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale." I had awakened him at the first transformation scene. Thinking he had a nightmare, I awakened him. In the small hours of one morning, I was awakened by cries of horror from Louis. Biographer, Graham Balfour, quoted Stevenson's wife, Fanny Stevenson: 1888), he racked his brains for an idea for a story and had a dream, and upon waking had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story Strange Case of Dr. According to his essay "A Chapter on Dreams" ( Scribner's, Jan. In early 1884, he wrote the short story " Markheim", which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual. ![]() Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about William Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can reflect the interplay of good and evil. ![]()
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