Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

<b>Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel.</b><i> <p/>Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.</i> <p/>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. <p/>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 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. <p/>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. <p/><b>Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on <i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> by Vladimir Nabokov <p/>With an Introduction by Kelly Hurley<br>and an Afterword by Dan Chaon</b>