Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Роберт Льюис Стивенсон
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First published in Great Britain as Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Longmans, Green & Co. 1886
Published as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by The Detective Story Club Ltd
for Wm Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1929
‘The Body Snatcher’ first published by Pall Mall Gazette 1884
‘Markheim’ first published in Unwin’s Christmas Annual 1885
The Untold Sequel of the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
first published by Pinckney Pub. Co. 1890
‘Dr Jekyl’ first published by The Christopher Publishing House 1931
Introduction © Richard Dalby 2015
Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1929, 2015
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Source ISBN: 9780008137212
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Contents
STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
CHAPTER II: SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
CHAPTER III: DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
CHAPTER IV: THE CAREW MURDER CASE
CHAPTER V: INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
CHAPTER VI: REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
CHAPTER VII: INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER IX: DR. LANYON’S NARRATIVE
CHAPTER X: HENRY JEKYLL’S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
THE UNTOLD SEQUEL OF THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: BY FRANCIS H. LITTLE
CHAPTER III: CONFESSION OF EDWARD HYDE
THE BODY SNATCHER: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
MARKHEIM: BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
DR. JEKYL: BY ROBERT J. MCLAUGHLIN
AS a modest and self-effacing author who was initially convinced that ‘my fame will not last more than four years’, Robert Louis Stevenson would have been amazed at his subsequent great fame and renown. Celebrated as a brilliant essayist, novelist and children’s poet, in a literary career that lasted barely twenty years, he was also a master of finely wrought horror, culminating in his celebrated ‘shilling shocker’, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in 1886.
A tormented, guilt-ridden work, Jekyll and Hyde grew out of Stevenson’s early youth in Edinburgh during which he became