Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

man is not truly one, but truly two. In 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 Freuds theory of the unconscious, Stevenson literalises the concepts of the supernatural doppelgnger 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 Stevensons international reputation as an author. This volume also contains Stevensons 1887 collection of short stories, The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables, 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.