Publisher's Synopsis
Although humor, a taste for adventure and fantasy dominate much of RL Stevenson's work, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde evokes the dark side of the human condition, transmitting to the reader the sense of horror that it arouses. the discovery of the abominable within everyday reality. The superb literary quality of this admirable story, its formal perfection and the economy of means of its argument have made it a perennial work that admits various readings that are not mutually exclusive and that range from simple delivery to effective plot suspense., to its interpretation as a fable about man as the setting for the perpetual struggle between good and evil.
