Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde Av Robert Louis Stevenson

<p>¿¿man is not truly one, but truly two.¿<br><br>In this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud¿s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural <em>doppelg¿er</em> and the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ¿double¿ stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson¿s international reputation as an author.<br><br></p><p>This volume also contains Stevenson¿s 1887 collection of short stories, <em>The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables,</em> which includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ¿Markheim¿, and the occult tales of terror, ¿The Merry Men¿, ¿Olall