Name: Dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde
SKU: 53933128
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Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
ISBN: 9780692537459

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher

Sugar Skull Press

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x0.6 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN13

9780692537459

Synopsis "Dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde "

"...Stevenson's short novel, written in 1885, is one of the ancestors of the modern mystery story...not only a good 'bogey story, ' as Stevenson exclaimed when awakening from a dream in which he had visualized it...It is also, and more importantly, a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction, and therefore belongs to the same order of art as, for instance, Madame Bovary or Dead Souls. VLADIMIR NABOKOV "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is a double triumph. It has the outside excitement that belongs to Conan Doyle with the inside excitement that belongs to Henry James." G.K. CHESTERTON "Jekyll & Hyde I have read [and found] admirable...worthy of Shakespeare." GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Robert Louis Stevenson

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(Edinburgh, 1850 - Samoa, 1894) British novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. He entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of sixteen to follow in his father's footsteps and become a lighthouse engineer, a career he would later abandon. His nautical studies allowed him to come into contact with seafaring people and customs, key ingredients in some of his most famous works. His renowned work, Treasure Island, was published under the pseudonym Captain George North in 1881. In 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, one of the great classics of literature, was released. He died on the island of Samoa, at his home, Vailima.

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