Dr. jekyll and mr. hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel.

Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.

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.

Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on Dr.

Jekyll and Mr.

Hyde by Vladimir Nabokov With a New Introduction by Kelly Hurley and an Afterword by Dan Chaon.