The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
By (Author) Robert Louis Stevenson
Edited by Robert Mighall
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
5th May 2003
27th February 2003
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.8
Physical Properties
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 14mm
170g
Description
Everyone has a dark side. Dr Jekyll has discovered the ultimate drug. A chemical that can turn him into something else. Suddenly, he can unleash his deepest cruelties in the guise of the sinister Hyde. Transforming himself at will, he roams the streets of fog-bound London as his monstrous alter-ego. It seems he is master of his fate. It seems he is in complete control. But soon he will discover that his double life comes at a hideous price
Author Bio
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.
