Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192805975 ISBN 13: 9780192805973

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006

Synopsis

'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The respectable doctor's mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrilling endings in English literature. In addition to Jekyll and Hyde, this edition also includes a number of short stories and essays written by Stevenson in the 1880s, minor masterpieces of fiction and comment: 'The Body Snatcher', 'Markheim', and 'Olalla' feature grave-robbing, a sinister double, and degeneracy, while 'A Chapter on Dreams' and 'A Gossip on Romance' discuss artistic creation and the 'romance' form. Appendixes provide extracts from contemporary writings on personality disorder, which set Stevenson's tale in its full historical context.

About this title

Review:

The best edition of Stevenson's supernatural fiction so far. The texts are very well edited, the notes are significant and unobtrusive for the average reader, and the appendices provide the perfect complementation for Stevenson's narratives of the uncanny. Roger Luckhurst's introduction is fascinating. A must. (Dr. Antonio Ballesteros-González, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)

About the Author:

Roger Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in English at Birbeck College, University of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0192805975
• ISBN 13: 9780192805973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Luckhurst Roger