The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486266885 ISBN-13: 9780486266886 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $2.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1991 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Stevenson's preoccupation with 'that strong sense of man's double being' comes to the fore in the other stories included in this gripping selection. 'The Body Snatcher' and 'Markheim' both have protagonists for whom there is no clear borderline between decency and wickedness, innocence and guilt. Other kinds of dualism ruin through tales written in the Scots dialect. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Gothic - Fiction | Horror - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 90019744 |
Lexile Measure: 1060 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 4.8" W x 7.8" (0.10 lbs) 64 pages |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 68685 Reading Level: 9.3 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child's Garden of Verses and wrote the novels Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |