Jekyll and Hyde: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1511878061 ISBN 13: 9781511878067

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Stevenson‘s masterful crime story is literature that still unbroken fascinates — a classic motif of a split personality and milestone of modern horror fiction.

The respected, socially established and progressive Dr. Jekyll has a split personality and leads a double life. At night he transforms into Mr. Hyde by an elixir - the evil and instinctual side of Jekyll. Hyde puts the dark streets of London in fear and terror. Jekyll succeeded the retransformation more and more difficultly. While he to cover up the crimes of Hyde and to make amends, Hyde mutated to a sadistic psychopath with no self-control.

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Review

Praise for previous editions:

“Martin Danahay provides an authoritative text, an excellent introductory commentary, an up-to-date bibliography, and a well-chosen set of contextualizing appendices. For an in-depth understanding of Stevenson’s masterpiece of horror, this is the text of choice.” — Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

“Martin Danahay’s edition of Jekyll and Hyde is a treasure trove of biographical, cultural, and historical materials. It makes a number of important contexts for interpretation available through its accessible but intriguing assemblage of ancillary documents. It cannot fail to be the inspiration for deeper investigations of a masterpiece that is itself at the crossroads of Victorian anxieties about sex, class, psychology, evolution, and the rise of popular culture.” — John Kucich, University of Michigan

From the Publisher

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Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1511878061
• ISBN 13: 9781511878067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66