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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston by Emma Letley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1998, Paperback) 
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston by Emma Letley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1998, Paperback)

 
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Weir of Hermiston by Emma Letley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1998, Paperback)

Author: Emma Letley, Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1998-07-09
Series: Oxford World's Classics Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0192834312
ISBN-13: 9780192834317
Product ID: EPID373309
Description: In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself s...
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Synopsis
In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of murder, and the good doctor, tormented by the struggle between good and evil that he embodies, is forced into an act of violence by his tortured conscience. Narrated by several onlookers, as well as by Jekyll himself, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, one of the earliest "horror" tales (1886), is arguably the most famous horror story ever written; the concept of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to signify a split personality has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness, even for those who have never read the book. It has, of course, been dramatized numerous times in numerous ways; it has prompted many interpretations since its publication in 1886, including the view that it was a precursor of Freud's work on the ego and the libido. Stevenson wrote the novel in a fever, finishing it in less than three days while he was deathly ill with tuberculosis. He lived, however, eight more years, dying in Samoa at the age of 44. THE WEIR OF HERMISTON was Stevenson's last novel, left unfinished at his sudden death when he was 44.

Details
Publication Date:1998-07-09
Series:Oxford World's Classics Series
Editor:Emma Letley

Size
Length:229 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Industry Reviews
"['Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] is not only a good 'bogey story'...it belongs to the same order of art as 'Madame Bovary' or 'Dead Souls'."
Vladimir Nabokov

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