Question

What's peculiar about some of Stevenson's most admired works?

a. They were written while he was bedridden.

b. He wrote them while traveling throughout Africa and Europe.

c. It took him only six months to write five books.

d. He was illiterate, so he had a ghost writer.

Answer 1

A. While in this bedridden state, he wrote some of his most popular fiction, most notably Treasure Island (1883), Kidnapped (1886), Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and The Black Arrow (1888).