Title: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199536221
Extension: EPUB
Size: 432 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Good and evil, Psychological, Horror, Horror - General, Horror & Ghost Stories, Literary, Fiction - General, classics, Criticism, Literature - Classics, London (England), literature, English | British Literature | 19th C, 19th Century English Novel And Short Story, Classic horror & ghost stories, Robert Louis, 1850-1894, Stevenson
Categories: Classic Literature, Fiction, Literature
Review
The best edition of Stevenson's supernatural fiction so far. The texts are very well edited, the notes are significant and unobtrusive for the average reader, and the appendices provide the perfect complementation for Stevenson's narratives of the uncanny. Roger Luckhurst's introduction is fascinating. A must. Dr. Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Product 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, two short essays, and extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorders. The introduction considers the reasons for the book's popularity, "the double," and psychoanalytic interpretations, as well as crime, sex, class, and urbanism in the 1880s. Appendixes provide contextual historical material by Henry Maudsley, Frederic Myers, and W.T. Stead. This edition also provides an up-to-date bibliography and full notes, including details of the initial responses of Stevenson's contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Rider Haggard.
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