The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Stories (Collector's Library)

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Price : 15.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781904633433
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Macmillan Collector's Library
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Weight (g) : 0.192
Publication date : February 2004
Dimensions : 160mm X 100mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Series : Collector's Library
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Dewey classification : 823.8
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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.

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Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850, the only son of an engineer, Thomas Stevenson. Despite a lifetime of poor health, Stevenson was a keen traveller, and his first book An Inland Voyage (1878) recounted a canoe tour of France and Belgium. In 1880, he married an American divorcee, Fanny Osbourne, and there followed Stevenson's most productive period, in which he wrote, amongst other books, Treasure Island (1883), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Kidnapped (both 1886). In 1888, Stevenson left Britain in search of a more salubrious climate, settling in Samoa, where he died in 1894.

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