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Article: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S ENDURING RELEVANCY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 20, 1988
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THE LANTERN-BEARERS and Other Essays, by Robert Louis
Stevenson; edited by Jeremy Treglown. Farrar Straus &
Giroux. 290 pp. $30 ($8.95, paperback).
Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde" has been the basis for at least 69 films, some by notable
directors such as F. W. Murnau and Jean Renoir. The underlying
themes of that tale -- the conflicts between respectability and
bohemianism, science and art, Calvinism and free thought -- often
emerge in Stevenson's essays, too, but the essays, delightful as
they are, have long been out of print, and this collection of 33
choice examples selected by Jeremy Treglown, editor of The Times
Literary Supplement, ...