‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’
In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgänger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ‘double’ stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson’s international reputation as an author.
This volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ‘Markheim’, and the occult tales of terror, ‘The Merry Men’, ‘Olalla’, and ‘Thrawn Janet’.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
ISBN: 9781840228359
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 312 g
Dimensions: 178 x 129 x 25 mm
Lawyer Mr. Utterson discovers that the life of his friend Dr. Jekyll has changed dramatically. There seems to be an evil looking Mr. Hyde very close to him. Who is this stranger? Did Hyde murder a well known popular... More
How to start, the stories written in dialect were a nightmare to read. I struggled a lot to understand and unfortunately 2 or 3 stories were written like this to varying degree. The other stories were interesting... More
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