Автор:Robert Louis Stevenson Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 144 ISBN: 0451532252 “Why did you wake me? I was dreaming a fine bogey tale.”A Robert Louis Stevenson’s masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in man’s nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconsciousa??during a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. More than a hundred years later, this tale of the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and the drug that unleashes his evil, inner personaa??the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hydea??has lost none of its ability to shock. Its realistic police-style narrative chillingly relates Jekyll’s desperation as Hyde gains control of his soula??and gives voice to our own fears of the violence and evil within us. Written before Freud’s naming of the ego and the id, Stevenson’s enduring classic demonstrates a remarkable understanding of the personality’s inner conflictsa??and remains the irresistibly terrifying stuff of our worst nightmares.A Includes the Famous Cornell Lecture onDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Vladimir NabokovA With a New...
