The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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116 Seiten; 178 mm x 111 mm
Sprache English
2010 HarperCollins UK; William Collins
ISBN 978-0-00-735100-8

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'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.'

After taking an elixir created in his laboratory, mild mannered Dr Jekyll is transformed into the cruel and despicable Mr Hyde. Although seemingly harmless at first, things soon descend into chaos and Jekyll quickly realises there is only one way to stop Hyde. Stevenson's quintessential novella of the Victorian era epitomizes the conflict between psychology, science and religious morality, but is fundamentally a triumphant study of the duality of human nature.

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Die meisterhafte Kriminalerzählung "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" des Schotten Robert Louis Stevenson ist weltberühmt. Unzählige Verfilmungen zeugen von der ungebrochenen Faszination, die von dieser unheimlichen Variante des Doppelgängermotivs ausgeht. Seit Jugendtagen weiß der Wissenschaftler Dr. Jekyll um die Spaltung seiner Persönlichkeit: Gut und Böse ringen in ihm. Mit Hilfe eines geheimnisvollen Elixiers setzt er schließlich die dunkle Seite seines Ichs frei, doch der mysteriöse Mr. Hyde wird immer mächtiger und droht das Gute zu verschlingen...

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Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to 'Louis' at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for 'the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures' found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.

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