An excellent new edition of Stevenson`s most famous story, including three additional tales, two short essays, appendixes containing extracts from contemporary writing on psychological disorder, and a wide-ranging introduction that considers the many, varied readings of this fascinating work.
Includes the short stories `The Body Snatcher`, `Markheim`, and `Olalla` as well as the important essays `A Chapter on Dreams` and `A Gossip on Romance`.
Appendixes provide contextual historical material by Henry Maudsley, Frederic Myers, and W. T. Stead
Wide-ranging introduction considers the reasons for the book`s popularity, `the double` and psychoanalytic interpretations, crime, sex, class and urbanism in the 1880s, the Gothic and Modernism
Full notes, including details of the initial responses of Stevensons` contemporaries such as John Addington Symonds, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Rider Haggard
Up-to-date bibliography
New to this Edition:
Three short stories: `The Body Snatcher`, `Markheim`, `Olalla`, and one essay, `A Gossip on Romance`
Three appendixes containing extracts from contemporary writers on psychological disorder (Henry Maudsley, Frederic Myers, W. T. Stead)
New bibliography
New chronology
New notes