The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05
This volume gathers three of Stevenson's most arresting works, proving his range extended far beyond adventure tales. Here is the legendary "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" - that shattering portrait of the beast lurking within every civilized man, a story so potent it coined a term for the human condition. Here too is "More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter," awitty, winking caper co-written with Fanny Stevenson about two bankrupt aristocrats stumbling into detective work in foggy London. And then there is "Prince Otto," the unusual romance that Goodreads describes as Stevenson's sole full-length love story: a prince and his wife grown strangers, their royal masks cracking under the weight of duty. Three tales, three registers - Gothic terror, comic adventure, quiet heartbreak - but all driven by Stevenson's obsession with the gap between who we pretend to be and who we truly are.
