Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

--man is not truly one, but truly two.-

In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud-s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelg-er and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent -double- stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson-s international reputation as an author.

This volume also contains Stevenson-s 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, -Markheim-, and the occult tales of terror, -The Merry Men-, -Olall