{"product_id":"dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-5","title":"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful deconstruction of Calvinist belief and the hypocrisy at the heart of Victorian society, Stevenson creates a gothic icon in the divided self that is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Born from a nightmare and anticipating Freud’s theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003edoppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the split personality in a timeless tale of guilt, desire, and violence by which all subsequent ‘double’ stories must be judged. In seeking to cleanse his soul of sin, Dr Henry Jekyll instead unleashes a monster. First published in 1886, this tragic study of the duality of man established Stevenson’s international reputation as an author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewhich includes a further exploration of the mind of a murderer, ‘Markheim’, and the occult tales of terror, ‘The Merry Men’, ‘Olalla’, and ‘Thrawn Janet’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stevenson, R. L.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48398363164887,"sku":"9781840228359","price":5.0,"currency_code":"KWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0498\/4081\/6279\/files\/54_c00d384e-1279-4f3d-8173-87b928a40d4a.png?v=1774247741","url":"https:\/\/theenglishbookshop.com\/products\/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-5","provider":"The English Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}