Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 203g
• ISBN-13: 9781108075169
• ISBN-10: 1108075169
• Artikelnr.: 41607515

Autorenporträt

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (1850-1894), Scottish writer and poet, was born in Edinburgh to a prosperous family of engineers but gave up the family profession first for law and then for literature. Among his prodigious output as a writer are: The Black Arrow (1884), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

Inhaltsangabe

Story of the door
Search for Mr Hyde
Dr Jekyll was quite at ease
The Carew murder case
Incident of the letter
Remarkable incident of Dr Lanyon
Incident at the window
The last night
Dr Lanyon's narrative
Henry Jekyll's full statement of the case.