![]() Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh. Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on Dr. 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. Its realistic 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. Hyde-has lost none of its ability to shock. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner persona-the loathsome, twisted Mr. ![]() More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. ![]() Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality 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. “Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.” Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel. ![]()
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