Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

<b>Robert Louis Stevenson explores the very nature of man in this classic horror novel.</b><i><br><br>&#147;Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.&#148;</i><br><br>Robert Louis Stevenson&#146;s masterpiece of the duality in man&#146;s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconscious&#151;during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him alerted by his screams.&#160;<br><br>More than a hundred years later this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil inner persona&#151;the loathsome twisted Mr. Hyde&#151;has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic narrative chillingly relates Jekyll&#146;s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soul&#151;and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us.<br><br>Written before Freud&#146;s naming of the ego and the id Stevenson&#146;s enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality&#146;s inner conflicts&#151;and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.<br><br><br><b>Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture on&#160;<i>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</i> by Vladimir Nabokov<br><br>With an Introduction by Kelly Hurley<br>and an Afterword by Dan Chaon</b>