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The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other tales of terror

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Main Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: London : Penguin, 2003.
Series:Penguin classics
Subjects:
Good and evil > Fiction.
Horror fiction.
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Item Description:Originally published: London : Penguin, 2002.
Physical Description:177 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0141439734
Author Notes:Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850. The son of a prosperous civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession but was finally allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted forcibly against the Presbyterianism of both his city's professional classes and his devout parents, but the influence of Calvinism on his childhood informed the fascination with evil that is so powerfully explored in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Stevenson suffered from a severe respiratory disease from his twenties onwards, leading him to settle in the gentle climate of Samoa with his American wife, Fanny Osbourne.

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