First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. Stevenson’s best-known novel for adults stands with Dracula and Frankenstein as one of the horro...
First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. Stevenson’s best-known novel for adults stands with Dracula and Frankenstein as one of the horror stories that has come to define the modern mind. Martin Danahay's new edition sets this classic firmly in the context out of which it emerged. The many appendices include a range of contemporary reactions to the novel; a selection of Victorian views on criminality and degeneracy; descriptions of Soho and London's West End in the 1880s; and a portfolio of newspaper accounts of and reaction to the "Jack the Ripper" murders. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Tr...
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a novelist, poet, short-story writer, and essayist. In 1883, while bedridden with tuberculosis, he wrote what would become one of the best known and most beloved collections of children's poetry in the English language, A Child's Garden of Verses. Block City is taken from that collection. Stevenson is also the author of such classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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"No sir: I had a delicacy," was the reply. "I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." (查看原文)
"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gves a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's an extraordinary looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And it's not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment." (查看原文)
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0 有用 忍酱忍不住 2013-05-02 01:39:07
最后一章博士的自白真的很精彩~~~但前面故弄玄虚累的呀……
0 有用 Momo 2022-08-25 00:03:58 英国
买了8年后看完的，给自己醉了。故事本身反应的观念还是挺浅白的，过时了。前面罗里巴嗦写了一大通，比较废话。最后的独白真的很恐怖。这故事确实很适合拿去拍电影或者改编成舞台剧。
0 有用 Faithful 2017-11-22 05:09:22
重读！To be tempted is to fall！短小精悍绝对是形容这个故事最恰当的词，感觉用一个科学寓言谈了几千年人类纠结的事，究竟是做内心的自己还是社会认同的完人？欲望重要还是道德至上？
0 有用 Momo 2022-08-25 00:03:58 英国
买了8年后看完的，给自己醉了。故事本身反应的观念还是挺浅白的，过时了。前面罗里巴嗦写了一大通，比较废话。最后的独白真的很恐怖。这故事确实很适合拿去拍电影或者改编成舞台剧。
0 有用 Faithful 2017-11-22 05:09:22
重读！To be tempted is to fall！短小精悍绝对是形容这个故事最恰当的词，感觉用一个科学寓言谈了几千年人类纠结的事，究竟是做内心的自己还是社会认同的完人？欲望重要还是道德至上？
0 有用 忍酱忍不住 2013-05-02 01:39:07
最后一章博士的自白真的很精彩~~~但前面故弄玄虚累的呀……