This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Hyde a 'mythopoetic figure' like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Sermons and editorials were written about it. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Hyde was published as a 'shilling shocker' in 1886, and became an instant classic. In another three days, he wrote it again. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh.

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