His writing continued to show the importance of his native country and his work is often set in Scotland or uses Scottish themes. He was eventually to settle with his family in Samoa in the South Seas, though he did not know, when he arrived, that he was to remain there for the rest of his life. His travelling also had the purpose of keeping the writer in warmer climates which were more suited to his health. He spent time in the American west with Fanny before voyaging even further west, into the Pacific. Stevenson flouted convention, rejecting the hypocrisies of Calvinist Scotland, preferring a bohemian lifestyle in France where he met his future wife, Fanny Osbourne, an American divorcee, ten year his senior. Jekyll and Hyde, while exploring the duality of good and evil, was also a criticism of Victorian morality. These issues were to be integral to his writing. Kidnapped, a fast paced adventure tale, is also a subtle examination of Scottish history and character. Kidnapped (1886) followed with critical success but it was The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) which was to bring Stevenson fame on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1882, Stevenson began to publish longer fiction and Treasure Island was serialised at this time. Despite his success with this style of writing and having been a writer of fiction since his teens, it was not until 1877 that his first work, a short story, was published. His early works consist of essays and travel writing, his first book, An Inward Voyage (1878), describes a canoe trip to Belgium and France.

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