Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

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Zusatztext 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. Klappentext Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context. Zusammenfassung Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?'

Auteur
Roger Luckhurst is the author of The Invention of Telepathy 1870-1901 (OUP, 2002) and co-editor of The Fin de Si'ecle: A Reader in Cultural History c. 1880-1900 (OUP, 2000) with Sally Ledger. For OWC he has edited Late Victorian Gothic Tales, R. L. Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady. Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Scotland in 1850. He was the son of an engineer, and he hoped to be an engineer himself. He began training, but his poor health prevented his continuing. Partly because of his health troubles - mainly tuberculosis - he spent a large part of his life outside Britain.

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Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context.

Contenu

• 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?'