Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN 10: 0140431179 ISBN 13: 9780140431179
Published by Penguin Classics, 1979
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The story of the respectable Dr Jekyll and his bestial alter ego Mr Hyde. As the tortured Dr Jekyll is transformed by a potent medicine - the result of an experimental error - into Mr Hyde, his capacity for evil is unleashed, for Mr Hyde knows no moral restraint.
About the Author: 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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Bibliographic Details
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good