Richard Dury (Foreword) is a retired professor of English language and literature at the University of Bergamo. He founded the Robert Louis Stevenson website in 1996 and participated actively in the publication of the Journal of Stevenson Studies and in a series of biennial conferences dedicated to the author. Apart from numerous articles on Stevenson, he has published a critical edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and a fully annotated edition of the same work. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet, is considered to be one of the great classic storytellers. Stevenson wrote a number of popular and enduring fantasies, including Treasure Island (1883) and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and a host of short stories.