Whole series of his book are dedicated to his native Dorset, full of sense of man’s bond* with nature and with the past. In his novels, a man never seem to be free: the weight of time and place presses heavily on him, and above everything, there are mysterious forces which control his life. Man is a puppet whose strings are worked by fates*, which are either hostile* or indifferent to him.
A return to optimism is shown in the verse and prose of Robert Luis Stevenson. He is at his best at his adventure stories, which show the influence of Wolter Scott. Boys like especially his Treasure Island. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde deal with the duality of good and evil within the same man.
Critics say that his works are superficial and some of his works /essays/ have little to say, but he says that little very well.

attempt pokus o čo
art for art’s sake umenie pre umenie
advocated obhajovať, chváliť
hedonism pôžitkárstvo
witty vtipný
concerned zaoberajúci sa
eternally naveky
finest flush v najväčšom rozkvete
granted splnený
moreover naviac
attendant spojené s
unnameable nepopísateľný
debauchery zhýralosť
repentant kajajúci kajúcny
quelling his sins zničil svoje hriechy
revert vrátiť
intrude vkrádať sa
sombre ponurý
De Profundis Z hĺbky duše
Imperialismus
Frontier wars pohraničné vojny
creed presvedčenie
reign vládnuť
bond puto, spojenie
fate osud
hostile nepriateľský
deal zaoberať sa.