Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192805975 ISBN 13: 9780192805973

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an instant classic, a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare whose hallucinatory setting in the back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. Its revelatory ending is one of the most original and thrilling in English Literature. This new edition of Stevenson's most famous work includes three additional short stories, two short essays, and extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorders. The introduction considers the reasons for the book's popularity, "the double," and psychoanalytic interpretations, as well as crime, sex, class, and urbanism in the 1880s. Appendixes provide contextual historical material by Henry Maudsley, Frederic Myers, and W.T. Stead. This edition also provides an up-to-date bibliography and full notes, including details of the initial responses of Stevenson's contemporaries, such as John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Rider Haggard.

About this title

About the Author:

Roger Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in English at Birbeck College, University of London.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0192805975
• ISBN 13: 9780192805973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Luckhurst Roger