The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

This was a gift for my daughter and she absolutely loved it. I will buy from this vendor again and again!

I am enjoying this edition (Kindle format) of "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and find the annotations and notes of what R. L. Stevenson was considering (and then edited) very interesting.I just wish to point out that the captions under some of the artwork (which is also really fascinating), are inaccurate. For example, one of the drawings of the transformation is credited to Charles Raymond Macaualey but was actually by Edmund J. Sullivan, and the caption reads: "He...gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs," which refers to the butler Poole discovering Mr. Hyde rummaging through boxes of chemicals. (Editors and publishers may want to adjust this for future printings.)Other than that, this is a very cool addition to my Gothic literature collection.

’The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ may be the most famous story you’ve never read — and the time to rectify that is now, with The Mysterious Press’ exhaustively annotated and illustrated edition edited by horror and Victorian-era authority Leslie S. Klinger. Oh, and in addition you’ll get an excellent introduction from Joe Hill, whose own horrific pedigree is well-cemented.The storied The Mysterious Press offers a sumptuous hardcover here — this is one of those times you’ll want to splurge on the print version — and Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic tale of depraved murder and human nature is a case study in how to produce a library quality edition for private consumption.Heavily illustrated doesn’t begin to cover the offerings. More than 150 full color images from the history of Stevenson’s 1886 tale include rare books, film stills, theatrical posters, classic illustrations and images of the movers and shakers — if you’ve never seen a Victorian-era “newspaper boy” hawking papers you’ll find it here — that have influenced the story’s retelling for more than a century.Including a notebook draft and a printer’s draft of the text further fills out any scholastic longings you’ll have about Stevenson’s original (not, of course, the original original which he burned into ashes), and the annotated text is like having your favorite tweed-jacketed, pipe smoking professor at hand to interject Victorian witticisms at just the right time.Publishing the book during the spooky season — the title dropped Oct. 18 — is a natural, but those who love mysteries or a well-crafted book will find much to enjoy during the holidays, reading for the first time a story they know by heart.