The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Eyewitness Classics) - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis; Lawrence, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789420694 ISBN 13: 9780789420695

Verlag: Dk Pub, 1997

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Book by Lawrence Michael

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Background information and colorful, captioned artwork accompany an authoritative abridgment of Stevenson's chilling tale about the human propensity for both good and evil.

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Originally planned for serialization in Longman's Magazine, and written in less than ten weeks from first conception, this story was instead published separately and earned Stevenson a substantial royalty of one-sixth of the retail price on all copies sold, with an immediate advance for the first 10,000, and half of all proceeds from foreign sales; it won a rave review in The Times ("every connoisseur...must certainly read it twice...he works out the essential power of Evil") and sold 40,000 copies in the first six months. It touched a raw nerve in the late-Victorian imagination. As Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote to a friend, "You are certainly wrong about Hyde being overdrawn; my Hyde is worse." Vladimir Nabokov asserted in his Cornell lecture "that it was a fable belonging to the same order of art as...Madame Bovary."

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• Verlag: Dk Pub
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0789420694
• ISBN 13: 9780789420695
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 63
• Zeichner: Andrew Ian