Doctor Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (Everyman Paperbacks) - Hardcover

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0460017675 ISBN 13: 9780460017671

Verlag: Dutton Books, 1962

Inhaltsangabe

Stevenson's narrative of the strange split personality, Jekyll-Hyde, and several of his other short stories probe the depths of the human mind

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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: Dutton Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1962
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0460017675
• ISBN 13: 9780460017671
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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