This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Sermons and editorials were written about it. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In another three days, he wrote it again. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh.
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