Dr Jekyll and My Hyde and Suicide Club by R. L. Stevenson – First Edition Thus, 1964, Illustrated
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Description The Detail:In good condition. Some mild fading at the top spine of the boards. But gilt lettering is still bright. Dust jacket in good condition, however the white backgorund is dull and stained. Beautiful interior illustrations. The Story: ‘All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil’ Published as a ‘shilling shocker’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll’s strange association with ‘damnable young man’ Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde’s true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil. (Goodreads) The Author: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov. Related
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