Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Sharer, and Transformation: Three Tales of Doubles, A Longman Cultural Edition, 1st edition

Published by Pearson (February 28, 2008) © 2009

  • Robert L. Stevenson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Joseph Conrad
  • Mary J Shelley
  • Susan J. Wolfson Princeton University
  • Barry V. Qualls
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From Longman's Cultural Editions series, edited by Susan Wolfson and Barry Qualls, come three tales of transformation: Mary Shelley’s Transformation, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer.

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Table of Dates

Mary Shelley and Transformation

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1797-1851

Transformation

Absence

From "Introduction" to Frankenstein (1831)

Charles Darwin

From The Voyage of the Beagle: (1839): "Tierra del Fuego"

From The Descent of Man: (1871): "General Summary and Conclusion"

Robert Louis Stevenson and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Keywords: Strange and Case

Poetry from A Child’s Garden of Verses

Young Night Thought

Windy Nights

Escape at Bedtime

The Land of Nod

A Good Boy

Shadow March

The Unseen Playmate

My Shadow

The Dumb Soldier

The Land of Story-Books

A Chapter of Dreams

Letters (with a reply from J. A. Symonds)

Robert Louis Stevenson and his friends on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1895)

Joseph Conrad and The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad 1857-1924

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad’s letters on The Secret Sharer

From "Author's Notes" on "the basic fact of the tale" ('Twixt Land and Sea 1920)

Joseph Conrad on the art of fiction from Henry James, An Appreciation

From “Author’s Note” (1920) to The Shadow Line

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