- Verlag:Aeneas Press
- Veröffentlicht:16.09.2026
- ISBN:9785486959943
- Länge: 77 Seiten
Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by Henry Fuseli, John Atkinson Grimshaw and Francisco Goya. A London lawyer notices that his old friend Dr Jekyll has made a will in favour of a repellent stranger, and sets out to learn what hold the man has over him. Stevenson wrote the first draft in three days in a fever at Bournemouth, burned it when his wife said he had missed the allegory, and wrote it again. The transformation is famous; what still bites is Jekyll's own account, in which the cage door is opened from the inside, again and again, by choice. Forty-three night pieces by Grimshaw, Whistler and others trace the gaslit streets and moonlit rivers where a respectable man's other self might walk unseen.