GIC "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
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- Seller : the_old_money_desk (+5807)
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- Start : Wed 13 Mar 2013 13:43:54 (EDT)
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A Baronet Book, #B224-10. Cover priced at $9.95 U.S. and $11.95 Canada & Australia. A bargain here, at the starting price!
LARGE PRINTING for easy reading, for the youngster or even the elderly. This classic is timeless and for any reader who enjoys science fiction. The storyline summarizes..... "Kindly, respected Dr. Henry Jekyll is convinced that all men have two personalities lurking within them. He concocts a drug to separate one man into teo personalities and tests it on himself. Enter Mr. Hyde -- Jekyll's murderous alter ego -- as depraved and vicious as Jekyll is virtuous and kindly. Robert Louis Stevenson's shocking thriller explores the battle between good and evil within ourselves. Can Jekyll overcome Hyde -- or will he become Hyde's next victim?"
| Synopsis | |
| A lawyer in Victorian London tries to understand the nature of the strange relationship between his physician friend and the cruel and violent man he seems to protect. Illustrated sidebar notes provide historical background to the text. In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of murder, and the good doctor, tormented by the struggle between good and evil that he embodies, is forced into an act of violence by his tortured conscience. Narrated by several onlookers, as well as by Jekyll himself, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, one of the earliest "horror" tales (1886), is arguably the most famous horror story ever written; the concept of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to signify a split personality has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness, even for those who have never read the book. It has, of course, been dramatized numerous times in numerous ways; it has prompted many interpretations since its publication in 1886, including the view that it was a precursor of Freud's work on the ego and the libido. Stevenson wrote the novel in a fever, finishing it in less than three days while he was deathly ill with tuberculosis. He lived, however, eight more years, dying in Samoa at the age of 44. |
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| Details | |
| Series: | Great Illustrated Classics |
| Size | |
| Height: | 8.0 in. |
| Width: | 5.5 in. |
| Thickness: | 0.8 in. |
| Weight: | 13.6 oz. |
| Publisher's Note | |
| A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation. |
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| Industry reviews | |
| "['Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] is not only a good 'bogey story'...it belongs to the same order of art as 'Madame Bovary' or 'Dead Souls'." Vladimir Nabokov |
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Listing Information
| Listing Type | Free Listing |
| Listing ID# | 33075984 |
| Start Time | Wed 13 Mar 2013 13:43:54 (EDT) |
| Close Time | 7 days > 1st bid |
| Starting Bid | $4.95 |
| Item Condition | New |
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| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United States |
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| Subject | Classics |
