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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author)
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.
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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
 
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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.
An intriguing combination of fantast thriller and moral allegory, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicts the gripping struggle of two opposing personalities -- one essentially good, the other evil -- for the soul of one man. Its tingling suspense and intelligent and sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature reveals Stevenson as a writer of great skill and originality, whose power to terrify and move us remains, over a century later, undiminished.