Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -
Robert Louis Stevenson
1886 - Longmans, London - First Edition
‘With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.’
First edition of this classic mystery horror story (or Crawler as Stevenson called it), inspired by the case of the Edinburgh body snatchers Burke and Hare, and written in just three days, although it was shelved by the author for three years as he considered it too disturbing for publication. Jekyll and Hyde is a chilling masterpiece work; a brilliantly suggestive, resonant study of human duality by a natural storyteller, demonstrating how a seemingly good person can become evil in certain situations, each character being quite separate from the other.  More Details
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