The document discusses Robert Louis Stevenson, a Scottish novelist born in 1850. It describes his early life, education, works including Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped. It notes that Stevenson spent his later years in Samoa due to declining health and died there in 1894, beloved by the Samoan people. The document also provides a brief summary of the plot of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, involving a doctor who invents a formula that turns him into his evil alter ego Mr. Hyde.