Vladimir Nabokov likened it to Madame Bovary and Dead Souls as “a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction.”Įnriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship.
Though sometimes dismissed as a mere mystery story, the book has evoked much literary admirations. Published in 1866, Jekyll and Hyde was an instant success and brought Stevenson his first taste of fame. Anticipating modern psychology, Jekyll and Hyde is a brilliantly original study of man’s dual nature-as well as an immortal tale of suspense and terror. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. It was the curse of mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together-that in the agonised womb of consciousness, these polar twins should be continuously struggling.Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. The unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil. If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable Thought of the separation of these elements. It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both and from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only. Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens. I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
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