The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Stevenson, Robert Louis & Laura Victoria Levin

ISBN 10: 1566197112 / ISBN 13: 9781566197113

Published by Dorset Pr, 1995

About this Item

Book is in excellent, possibly unread condition and shows very minor edge wear. Please See Photographs; Full Number Line 1st Edition - 1st Printing; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 187 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories
• Publisher: Dorset Pr
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566197112
• ISBN 13: 9781566197113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

How thin is the line between good and evil?

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde. But gradually he begins to find that the journey back to goodness becomes more and more difficult, and the risk that Mr Hyde will break free entirely from Dr Jekyll's control puts all of London in grave peril.

Review

"Stevenson's short stories are certain to retain their position in English literature. His serious rivals are few indeed" (Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Mr Hyde's sordid and perhaps deviant excesses are rendered more suggestive through being left undescribed" (Sarah Waters)

"A fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction" (Vladimir Nabokov)

"Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be" (Quintin Jardine)

"Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime" (Alanna Knight)