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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Kaban ng Hiyas
Congressional Library

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Call Number

PL 750752 720M7 2602 2016

Accession Number

99441kh

PUBLICATION YEAR

2010

Keywords

Duality, Good and Evil, Transformation, Inner Conflict, Nightmare

Book Summary

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. (less)

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