Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson - ISBN: 9780241552681
Hardcover
Respectable doctor, damnable man: one body, two terrifying faces.

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  • Hardcover

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    28 November 2023

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Summary

Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition

Published as a ‘shilling shocker’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde’s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity’s basest capacit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241552681
ISBN-10:0241552680
Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:28 November 2023
Weight:328g
Dimensions:205mm x 137mm x 22mm
Series:Penguin Clothbound Classics
About The Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city’s professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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