Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Shorter Fiction - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881847410 ISBN 13: 9780881847413

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1991

Synopsis

Contains background information on Stevenson's life and career accompanied by his stories and novellas, including "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

About this title

From Library Journal:

Editor Stoneley provides a brief introduction, complete with publication histories, for fiction by Stevenson that is under 50,000 words. The chronological arrangement allows readers to see Stevenson's development as a writer adept at interpreting the human condition. Stevenson knew how to tell spellbinding stories with an intelligence and wit that can still be enjoyed today. Moreover, his concern about the nature of good and evil is universal, and his treatments of race, class, and gender give us a 19th-century perspective that is helpful in our own struggles with these issues. Libraries without a similar collection will want this one, although they should know that the absence of notes is sometimes a problem for topical references and dialects.
- Judy Mimken, Saginaw, Mich.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Stevenson's short stories and novellas are collected, including his classic study of late-Victorian dualism, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0881847410
• ISBN 13: 9780881847413
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Stoneley Peter