Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Annotated, Large Print)

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Produktbeschreibung

Read one of the Robert Louis Stevenson classics.The definitive edition.Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of Robert Louis Stevenson Remastered for premium quality print and easy reading In this novel, we will follow the story of Gabriel John Utterson, a legal practitioner that follows the case occurring to his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll. Jekyll is an outwardly good, nice, and mild-mannered young man. Due to a split personality, he turns into Mr. Hyde: a cruel, self-indulgent, terrifying evil person that lacks any kind of empathy. When transformed into Mr. Hyde, the man commits disproportionate crimes without remorse. He starts his string of violence by trampling a young girl that bumped into him to death. What starts as a manageable illness rapidly spirals out of control. Will Hyde be able to manage the dangers of his hidden self with a potion he concocted? The book explores the inner demons every human has and fights with. This is a classic man versus self-exploration in the most engaging style that only Robert Louis Stevenson could create. Learn more about both Jekyll and Hyde, about how their illness developed, what sorts of crimes they commit, and find out if Dr. Jekyll can escape the evils of Mr. Hyde. Get your copy of this timeless classic today!

Produktdetails

• Sastrugi Press Classics Large Print
• Verlag: Sastrugi Press LLC
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781649221278
• ISBN-10: 1649221274
• Artikelnr.: 61440204

Autorenporträt

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, and Jack London. Stevenson was a celebrity in his own time, but he was seen for much of the 20th century as a second-class writer. He became relegated to children's literature and horror genres, condemned by literary figures such as Virginia Woolf (daughter of his early mentor Leslie Stephen), and he was gradually excluded from the canon of literature taught in schools. His exclusion reached its nadir in the 1973 2,000-page Oxford Anthology of English Literature where he was entirely unmentioned, and The Norton Anthology of English Literature excluded him from 1968 to 2000 (1st-7th editions), including him only in the 8th edition (2006). The late 20th century brought a re-evaluation of Stevenson as an artist of great range and insight, a literary theorist, an essayist and social critic, a witness to the colonial history of the Pacific Islands, and a humanist. He was praised by Roger Lancelyn Green, one of the Oxford Inklings, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill or sheer imaginative power" and a pioneer of the Age of the Story Tellers along with H. Rider Haggard. He is now evaluated as a peer of authors such as Joseph Conrad (whom Stevenson influenced with his South Seas fiction) and Henry James, with new scholarly studies and organisations devoted to him. Throughout the vicissitudes of his scholarly reception, Stevenson has remained popular worldwide. According to the Index Translationum, Stevenson is ranked the 26th most translated author in the world, ahead of Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.