Product Overview
Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel.
Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.
Robert Louis Stevensons masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in mans nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconsciousduring a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner personathe loathsome, twisted Mr. Hydehas lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekylls desperation as Hyde gains control of his souland gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freuds naming of the ego and the id, Stevensons enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personalitys inner conflictsand remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.
Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture onDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Vladimir Nabokov
With a New Introduction by Kelly Hurley
and an Afterword by Dan Chaon
