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""Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale."" Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man's nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious--during 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 persona--the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde--has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll's desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul--and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud's naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson's enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality's inner conflicts--and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares. Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Vladimir Nabokov With a New Introduction by Kelly HUrleyand with an Afterword by Dan Chaon

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

• Full title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• EAN: 9780451532251
• ISBN: 0451532252
• ID: 05335149
• Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
• Weight: 74 g
• Dimensions: 171 × 116 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. December 2012

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