Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde: Island Night's Entertainments, The Merry Men And Other Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few works in the English literary canon have so masterfully dissected the duality of human nature as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — a tale set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London, where the brilliant and respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll wages a desperate, ultimately doomed battle against the monstrous alter ego he has unleashed through science. This Heron Books collection unites that landmark novella with the eerie supernatural tales of Island Night's Entertainments, the brooding The Merry Men, and a selection of other stories, presenting Stevenson's genius across a rich spectrum of Gothic suspense, South Seas atmosphere, and psychological terror. Stevenson's prose is deceptively elegant — spare yet charged with menace — and this anthology illustrates the astonishing range of a writer who could conjure existential dread as readily as he could paint the sun-drenched Pacific. The introduction by John Kelman provides scholarly context, illuminating the moral and philosophical currents that run beneath Stevenson's storytelling. Together, these works stand as a testament to the Victorian preoccupation with hidden vice, the fragility of civilised identity, and the darkness that lurks just beneath the surface of respectability — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, which face is truly the mask.
Author: R. L. Stevenson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few works in the English literary canon have so masterfully dissected the duality of human nature as Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — a tale set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London, where the brilliant and respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll wages a desperate, ultimately doomed battle against the monstrous alter ego he has unleashed through science. This Heron Books collection unites that landmark novella with the eerie supernatural tales of Island Night's Entertainments, the brooding The Merry Men, and a selection of other stories, presenting Stevenson's genius across a rich spectrum of Gothic suspense, South Seas atmosphere, and psychological terror. Stevenson's prose is deceptively elegant — spare yet charged with menace — and this anthology illustrates the astonishing range of a writer who could conjure existential dread as readily as he could paint the sun-drenched Pacific. The introduction by John Kelman provides scholarly context, illuminating the moral and philosophical currents that run beneath Stevenson's storytelling. Together, these works stand as a testament to the Victorian preoccupation with hidden vice, the fragility of civilised identity, and the darkness that lurks just beneath the surface of respectability — leaving the reader to wonder, long after the final page, which face is truly the mask.