Penguin English Library Dr Jekyll Adn Mr Hyde
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Robert Louis Stevenson
The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil.This edition also includes Stevenson's chilling story 'The Bottle Imp'.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pages
224
Publisher
National Geographic Books
Published Date
2012-12-25
ISBN
0141389508 9780141389509
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"Read the story in Spanish, but couldn't find the book here. I found the book on my bookshelf and realized I had never actually read it so I took it along with me as commuting reading since it's so small. <br/>The story is very well written, and even though I knew what the story was about, because of how deeply rooted the concept of Jekyll/Hyde is on our daily culture, the reading itself was truly enjoyable. There are a couple instances of forewarning where we can see where the story is going and yet we go along the characters as they discover the whole situation of Jekyll and Hyde.<br/>I was pleasantly surprised by the gray morality of Jekyll in regards of experimentation because for some reason I expected the story to be a thing of "good vs evil" considering the date it was written. <br/>I think everyone should actually read this story at least once in their lives."
Mari D