Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Rilegato

Stevenson, R. L.

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ISBN 10: 0008259119 ISBN 13: 9780008259112

Casa editrice: Collins Crime Club, 2018

Riassunto

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature’s most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, in hardback with its 1929 cover design and a brand new introduction.

London lawyer Gabriel John Utterson is persuaded to investigate the sinister activities of the dastardly Mr Edward Hyde. He becomes convinced that Hyde is blackmailing his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and that a master criminal is at work. To his horror, Utterson discovers that the doctor’s own researches into the duality of human nature have unleashed a murderous sociopath and set in motion a deadly chain of events that threatens to overwhelm him.

Published in January 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s crime fantasy was an immediate success, inspiring more than 100 stage and film adaptations and becoming one of the best-known stories ever written. It was reissued in the Detective Story Club in 1929 for being ‘without equal in the realm of detective fiction’.

This Detective Story Club classic is introduced by supernatural and detective fiction researcher Richard Dalby. It includes Stevenson’s macabre tales ‘Markheim’ and ‘The Body Snatcher’, plus two of the earliest published Jekyll and Hyde parodies – the detective story ‘Dr Jekyl’ by Robert McLaughlin (1931) and a bizarre ‘Untold Sequel’ by Francis Little (1890).

“The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.

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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.

Richard Dalby is a professional author, bibliographer, researcher and bookdealer, specializing in supernatural fiction. His previous anthologies include ‘The Sorceress in Stained Glass’ (1971) and ‘The Best Ghost Stories of H. Russell Wakefield’ (1978) and ‘Dracula’s Brood’ (1987). He has also published ‘Bram Stoker: A Bibliography of First Editions’ (1983).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Collins Crime Club
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0008259119
• ISBN 13: 9780008259112
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile