Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)

Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel.

€œWhy did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.€

Robert Louis Stevenson€s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man€s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious€"during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona€"the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde€"has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll€s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul€"and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud€s naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson€s enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality€s inner conflicts€"and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.

Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Vladimir Nabokov

With a New Introduction by Kelly Hurley
and an Afterword by Dan Chaon