Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The respectable doctor's mysterious relationship with his disreputable associate is finally revealed in one of the most original and thrilling endings in English literature. In addition to Jekyll and Hyde, this edition also includes a number of short stories and essays written by Stevenson in the 1880s, minor masterpieces of fiction and comment: 'The Body Snatcher', 'Markheim', and 'Olalla' feature grave-robbing, a sinister double, and degeneracy, while 'A Chapter on Dreams' and 'A Gossip on Romance' discuss artistic creation and the 'romance' form. Appendixes provide extracts from contemporary writings on personality disorder, which set Stevenson's tale in its full historical context.

ISBN 0199536228   Volumes 000 ISBN13 9780199536221 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 196 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192834317 Publication date 08 May 2008   Height (mm) 197 Library of Congress PR   Width (mm) 128 DEWEY 823.8   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 256   Alternative ISBN 9789626340905

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Body Snatcher; Markheim; Olalla; A Gossip on Romance; A Chapter on Dreams; Appendix A: Henry Maudsley, 'The Disintegrations of the "Ego"'; Appendix B: Frederic Myers, 'The Multiplex Personality'; Appendix C: W. T. Stead, 'Has Man Two Minds or One?'

The best edition of Stevenson's supernatural fiction so far. The texts are very well edited, the notes are significant and unobtrusive for the average reader, and the appendices provide the perfect complementation for Stevenson's narratives of the uncanny. Roger Luckhurst's introduction is fascinating. A must. Dr. Antonio Ballesteros-Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

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