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Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Fables by Robert Louis StevensonThe fable, as a literary art form, had a great attraction for Mr. Stevenson at all times; and in an early review of Lord Lytton's Fables at Song, he attempted to define some of their proper aims and methods. To this kind of work, according to his conception of the matter, essentially several of his own semi-supernatural stories belonged, such as Will of the Mill , Markheim and even Jekyll and Hyde; in the composition of which he was combined with the dream element, at least in equal measure, the element of moral allegory or apology. He was also accustomed to occasionally testing the composition of more strictly called fables, and cast in the brief and familiar conventional form. In the winter of 1887-88 he already had enough of these, along with a few others running longer, and conceived in a more mystical and legendary streak, to allow him, as he thought, to see how to make a book with them. He promised such a book to Messrs. Longman on the occasion of a visit to a firm member in New York in the spring of 1888. Then came his trip to the Pacific and his residence in Samoa.Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (Edinburgh, Scotland, November 13, 1850-Vailima, near Apia, Samoa, December 3, 1894)

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