Dimensions
130 x 197 x 17mm
We are all familiar - or think we are familiar - with the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Since its first publication in 1886 it has become part of popular myth, retold in countless plays and films. But there is a hidden side to Stevenson's psychological thriller.
Stevenson's preoccupation with "that strong sense of man's double being" comes to the fore in the other stories included in this gripping selection. 'The Body Snatcher' and 'Markheim' both have protagonists for whom there is no clear borderline between decency and wickedness, innocence and guilt. Other kinds of dualism run through tales written in the Scots dialect, 'Thrawn Janet' and 'The Tale of Tod Laprik', supernatural is inseparably intertwined with the everyday.
A unique selection of texts, with introduction.
