{"product_id":"dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-6","title":"Dr Jekyll \u0026 Mr Hyde","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘…man is not truly one, but truly two.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 \u003cem\u003edoppelgänger\u003c\/em\u003e and 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume also contains Stevenson’s 1887 collection of short stories, \u003cem\u003eThe Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables,\u003c\/em\u003e which 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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57312149340542,"sku":"NW9781840228359","price":8.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781840228359.jpg?v=1778508862","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dr-jekyll-mr-hyde-6","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}