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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one of the most original and thrilling in English Literature. This new edition of Stevenson's most famous work includes three additional short stories,...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, " Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. Also in this volume are "The Body Snatcher, " which charts the murky underside of Victorian medical...
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