The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Second Edition 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. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a fascinating selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of t... Full description
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"...this edition will be a boon to the classroom or to an individual's private enjoyment of this classic tale." -- Gordon Hirsch, University of Minnesota
"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 justifies our on-going admiration for this masterpiece of English literature." -- Patricia O'Neill, Hamilton College, Clinton
"Martin Danahay's edition of Jekyll and Hyde is a treasure-trove of biographical, cultural, and historical materials..." -- John Kucich, University of Michigan
"The appendices to this edition offer the reader a splendid sense of the book’s cultural background..." -- Ann C. Colley, SUNY College at Buffalo, author of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination
"[T]his edition will be a boon to the classroom or to an individual's private enjoyment of this classic tale." -- Gordon Hirsch, University of Minnesota
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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