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Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde And Other Tales (1901)

by Robert Louis Stevenson(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0199536228 (ISBN13: 9780199536221)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

review 1: i haven't read the last couple of short stories yet but i don't know when i'll ever get round to them so i'll just base my rating on the first few i had to read this for uni for my scottish literature course and going by my other experience so far in the reading material i wasn't expecting to like it but i really enjoyed the strange case of Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde. gothic is a very fitting description.
review 2: From the Introduction, by Roger Luckhurst:"Stevenson veered constantly between high literary ambition and writing in commercial forms for market rates, and many of his critics were confused about where to place each work. Stevenson was himself unsure at times, and frequently misjudged things. PRINCE OTTO, a novel on which he spent five years to secure his... more reputation as a 'serious' novelist, was not well received; JEKYLL AND HYDE, dreamt up, written, rewritten, and published all in under ten weeks, became his masterpiece. It was also a commercial success, selling 40,000 copies in England in six months, and innumerable tens of thousands of pirated copies in America, where the book was a popular sensation. This confusion over incompatible forms of high and low literary value was not unusual in the late Victorian era, as authors as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad sought to negotiate the new commercial forms and the increasing professionalization of literature (including newfangled things like literary agents and limited international copyright). The distinction of high and low literature, as we understand them in the modern sense, was still emergent, so that this was a moment when a lowly Gothic romance might conjoin unexpectedly with a species of psychological realism to produce a JEKYLL AND HYDE." (Kindle location 96-108) less

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