The Connell Short Guide to Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde

David Anderson

ISBN 10: 1911187155 / ISBN 13: 9781911187158

Editore: Connell Guides, 2021

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• Titolo: The Connell Short Guide to Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde
• Editore: Connell Guides
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1911187155
• ISBN 13: 9781911187158
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 80 grammi

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Riassunto

Stevenson’s short novel, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, became an immediate best-seller when first published in 1886, selling 40,000 copies in England alone during the first six months after its publication. Is it “a work of philosophic intention, or simply the most ingenious and irresponsible of fictions”, asked Stevenson’s friend, Henry James. His answer was very much the former. Jekyll and Hyde is an immensely complex work, open to all kinds of interpretations and, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, to which it is often compared, suggests there is a monstrous side to human beings which some event can easily trigger.

Informazioni sull?autore

Dr David Anderson is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He was formerly a Research Associate in UCL’s Urban Lab. Other published works include Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair (Oxford University Press, 2020). Jolyon Connell is the founder and editorial director of The Week and Money Week. A former Washington Correspondent of The Sunday Times and Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph, he has a first-class degree in English from the University of St Andrews and an honorary doctorate from the same university.