![]() ![]() This volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ‘Markheim’, and the occult tales of terror, ‘The Merry Men’, ‘Olalla’, and ‘Thrawn Janet’. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson’s international reputation as an author. Wellss The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost, and Rudyard Kiplings They. He still wore his heavy boots, despite the spring thaw his mackinaw and knitted cap were reminders of the hard winter that had come and gone. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. 3.63 Rating details 43 ratings 4 reviews It was dark by the time Lucas stopped his taxi in the driveway of the Wheeler home and lumbered up the path to the front entrance. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgänger and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ‘double’ stories must be judged. In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Collector’s Edition) ![]()
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