Robert Louis Stevenson: The Body Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body Snatcher” tells the story of Fettes, an alcoholic man who spends his nights drinking with his friends. One night, a chance encounter leads Fettes to meet Wolfe Macfarlane, a renowned doctor who has come to treat an important man. The meeting between the two is tense and raises many questions. Fettes’ friends decide to investigate his mysterious past and discover that Fettes was a medical student in Edinburgh. Along with Macfarlane, they were assisting a surgeon known as K., famous for having a constant supply of corpses to teach his students, obtained from unorthodox sources.
