Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Broadview Literary Texts) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Danahay, Martin

 
9781551112459: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Broadview Literary Texts)

Synopsis

First published in 1886 as a ''shilling shocker,'' Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence and class conflict.'

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Review

"Danahay provides an authoritative text...For an in-depth understanding of Stevenson's masterpiece of horror this is the text of choice." -- Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University

"Danahay's edition justifies our on-going admiration for this masterpiece of English literature." -- Patricia O'Neill, Hamilton College, Clinton

"This scholarly edition is highly recommended for personal and academic library collections and literary studies reading lists." -- Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher

The Broadview Editions series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Editions series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

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.

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