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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introductory essay by Vladimir Nabokov, and a new afterword by Dan Chaon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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When a brute of a man tramples an innocent girl, apparently out of spite, two bystanders catch the fellow and force him to pay reparations to the girl's family. The brute's name is Edward Hyde. A respected lawyer, Utterson, hears this story and begins to unravel the seemingly manic behavior of his best friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and his connection with Hyde. Several months earlier, Utterson had drawn up an inexplicable will for the doctor naming Hyde as his heir in the event that he disappears.Publishers WeeklyMattotti and his longtime collaborator Kramsky return to the comix world with an interpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of gothic horror. While the story is set in Victorian England, Mattotti's artwork evokes the masterful expressionism of Berlin of the 1930s and such influences as Max Beckman, George Grosz and Giorgio de Chirico. Dr. Jekyll's obsession with the duality of the human personality-the good and evil that reside within-leads him to concoct the potion that brings out his purely evil side. Depicting this transformation, Mattotti's art becomes even more expressive, reminiscent of the later paintings of Francis Bacon. Jekyll's assertion that with his potion \"

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Author

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introductory essay by Vladimir Nabokov, and a new afterword by Dan Chaon

Publisher

A SIGNET CLASSIC

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780451528957

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

Rating

3.79 / 5 (404 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14