Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Nabokov, Vladimir

• ISBN13: 9780451523938
• ISBN10: 0451523938
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-10-06
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenon's story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows him to bring his own appalling double to life. The finest horror story in our language, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde is also a metaphysical fairy-tale of stunning perspicacity. Also included in this collection are Markheim, A Lodging for the Night, Thrawn Janet, The Body-Snatcher and The Misadventures of John Nicholson. "From the Hardcover edition."

Author Biography

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh. In the brief span of forty-four years, dogged by poor health, he made an enormous contribution to English literature with his novels, poetry, and essays. The son of upper-middle-class parents, he was the victim of lung trouble from birth, and spent a sheltered childhood surrounded by constant care. The balance of his life was taken up with his unremitting devotion to work, and a search for a cure to his illness that took him all over the world. His travel essays were publihsed widely, and his short fiction was gathered in many volumes. His first full-length work of fiction, Treasure Island, was published in 1883 and brought him great fame, which only increased with the publication of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886). He followed with the Scottish romances Kidnapped (1886) and The Master of Ballantrae (1889). In 1888 he set out with his family for the South Seas, traveling to the leper colony at Molokai, and finally settling in Samoa, where he died.

Table of Contents

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," an Introduction	p. 7
Story of the Door	p. 37
Search for Mr. Hyde	p. 45
Dr. Jekyll Was Quite at Ease	p. 56
The Carew Murder Case	p. 59
Incident of the Letter	p. 65
Remarkable Incident of Dr. Lanyon	p. 71
Incident at the Window	p. 76
The Last Night	p. 79
Dr. Lanyon's Narrative	p. 94
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case	p. 103
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