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Title:
Hyde : a novel
ISBN:
9780544191181
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Hyde -- Day 1 morning 3 -- Day 1 afternoon 32 -- Day 1 nightfall 42 -- Day 2 before dawn 63 -- Day 2 morning 83 -- Day 2 dusk 104 -- Day 3 before dawn 136 -- Day 3 noon 186 -- Day 3 night 228 -- Day 4 sunrise 277 Introduction to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 303 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 307.
Abstract:
"In this reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster's perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain. Mr. Hyde is hiding, trapped in Dr. Jekyll's surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, finally, to tell the story of his brief, marvelous life. We join Hyde, awakened after years of dormancy, in the mind he hesitantly shares with Jekyll. We spin with dizzy confusion as the potions take effect. We tromp through the dark streets of Victorian London. We watch Jekyll's high-class life at a remove, blurred by a membrane of consciousness. We feel the horror of lost time, the helplessness of knowing we are responsible for the actions of a body not entirely our own. Girls have gone missing. Someone has been killed. The evidence points to Mr. Hyde. Someone is framing him, terrorizing him with cryptic notes and whisper campaigns. Who can it be? Even if these crimes weren't of his choosing, can they have been by his hand? Though this classic has been often reinvented, no one ever imagined Hyde's perspective, or that he could be heroic. Daniel Levine changes that. A mesmerizing gothic, Hyde tells the fascinating story of an underexamined villain"-- Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book