The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

ISBN: 1441711732

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Condition: New

About the Author Author Bio ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894) was born in Scotland. He studied engineering and law at the University of Edinburgh and then began writing while traveling in France. The publication of Treasure Island in 1883 brought him fame and entered him on a course of romantic fiction beloved by young and old alike. Reader Bio MARTIN JARVIS's distinguished career includes the title role on Broadway in By Jeeves, appearing in the Oscar-winning Titanic, starring roles in many international television series (from Murder She Wrote to Inspector Morse) and in London's West End and National Theatre. His bestselling audio recordings have won many awards in America and Britain. Product Description Dr. Jekyll, a generous and philanthropic physician, is preoccupied with the problem of good and evil, and how to separate them. He develops a drug that will transform him into the demonic Mr. Hyde, in whose person he can exhaust all the latent evil in his nature. He also creates an antidote that will restore him to his respectable existence as Dr. Jekyll. Gradually, however, the unmitigated evil of his darker self begins to predominate. This tale of the twisted, malevolent persona unleashed from a mild-mannered physician has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Dr. Jekyll s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Review The theme of human duality...is nowhere presented with more force and originality than in Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde....Based upon the dual personalities of a single man representing beauty and beast, the story reveals Stevenson's understanding of human nature and his mastery of English prose. --Masterpieces of World LiteratureIn its dramatization of the dark side of human nature, Stevenson's novel anticipates Sigmund Freud's study of the primitive forces of the mind that dwell in what he termed the unconscious and the id. --Masterpieces of World LiteratureThe novel is of great psychological perception and strongly concerned with ethical problems. --Reader's Encyclopedia