| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Contributor(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679734767 ISBN-13: 9780679734765 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $8.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 Annotation: A good man takes a potion that turns him into a freak of pure evil. A reasonable scientist is transformed - through the agency of science itself - into the living embodiment of unreason. Like the vampire and the werewolf, the sundered personae of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have worked their way into our collective unconscious, expressing both our ambivalence with science and our deepest questions about what is knowable in human nature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Thrillers - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 90050600 |
| Lexile Measure: 1010 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.11" W x 8.02" (0.25 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Robert Louis Stevenson's thrilling tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and his evil double, Mr. Hyde, is one of the most famous horror stories in English literature. It is also a profound and fascinating fable of the divided self that continues to seize readers' imaginations. This story of a misguided genius who brings his doppelg nger to life brilliantly dramatizes inner conflict and the capacity for violence and evil in every soul. An instant sensation on its first publication in 1886, Stevenson's spine-chilling novella has given rise to countless adaptations on stage and screen over the past century, but none can match the power and dark complexity of the original. |
