The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Book And CD Pack (Penguin Student Editions) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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9780140817874: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Book And CD Pack (Penguin Student Editions)

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ISBN 10: 0140817875 ISBN 13: 9780140817874

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2000

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Dr Jekyll, a physician conscious of the duality in his nature, and fascinated by the idea of the advantage that would arise if these elements could be clothed in different personalities, discovers a drug by means of which he can create a separate personality that absorbs all his evil instincts.

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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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