Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : shorter Scottish fiction
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-18942019
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Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has proved itself to be a tale of undiminished power for readers all over the world. It remains one of the great masterpieces of psychological fiction and yet it is not alone in Stevenson's work, for he had explored similar themes in several other stories too, all inextricably linked with his native country. This collection makes a strong case for the essentially Scottish origins of Stevenson's best short fiction, derived as it is from Calvinism's feeling for the immanence of evil, and driven by a sense of man's darker, divided self which goes back to Hogg's Justified Sinner. In this company stories of possession, doubleness and terror such as 'The Merry Men', 'The Body Snatcher', 'Markheim', 'Thrawn Janet' and others, reveal more clearly than ever their Scottish roots.
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Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : shorter Scottish fiction / Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Edinburgh : Canongate, 2019.
Collation:
320 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781838850791 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.8CL
LC class:
PR5481
Local class:
AFCL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2559509
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