Utterson the lawyer is becoming increasingly anxious about the strange behavior of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll & in particular by Jekyll's association with an ugly violent creature by the name of Edward Hyde. Utterson resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery & along the way uncovers a horrific story of murder & suffering which leads inevitably to the terrible revelation of Mr. Hyde's true identity. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is a masterpiece of Victorian literature & one of the most potent & enduring of modern myths. The adventures of Prince Florizel of Bohemia & his running battle with the sinister machinations of " The Suicide Club" are also included in this volume as well as " The Body Snatchers " " Markheim " & " Olalla"-three of Stevenson's memorable & well-observed short stories which deal with similarly gothic themes." ...

This title is suitable for children aged 10 years old & up. The respected Dr. Jekyll appears to have fallen under the spell of a disreputable character named Edward Hyde. Hyde has access to Jekylls bank account & Jekyll has named Hyde as his sole heir in a recently drafted will. & there is something even more disturbing about the close relationship between Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde... This handsome unabridged edition with striking illustrations by Scott Mc Kowen joins Sterlings beloved classics line & will be treasured in any familys library. ...

His innovative thriller as shocking now as when it was first published the Penguin Classics" edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Tales of Terror" is edited with an introduction by Robert Mighall. Published as a 'shilling shocker' Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with the 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; & the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: " Olalla" a tale of vampirism & tainted family blood & " The Body Snatcher" a gruesome fictionalisation of the exploits of the notorious Burke & Hare. This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall which discusses class criminality & the significance of the story's London setting. It also

Includes:: an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel & the development of the idea of the Jekyll-&-Hyde personality. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist & travel writer the success of " Treasure Island" (1883) & " Kidnapped" (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action & adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with predestination & a fascination with the presence of evil themes he explored in " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" (1886) & " The Master of Ballantrae" (1893). If you enjoyed " The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde" you might like " The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg" also available in " Penguin Classics". " Every bit as claustrophobic creepy & chilling as when it first saw the light of day over a century ago". (Ian Rankin)."

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Tommy & his classmates narrate this middle grade mystery each recounting an episode in which they received wise advice from a finger puppet of Yoda perpetually worn on the finger of their classmate Dwight a loser who cant get anything right. Is this puppet really Yoda? Or is Dwight a bit more together than he seems? ...

Tommy & his classmates narrate this middle grade mystery each recounting an episode in which they received wise advice from a finger puppet of Yoda perpetually worn on the finger of their classmate Dwight a loser who can't get anything right. Is this puppet really Yoda? Or is Dwight a bit more together than he seems? ...

When former infantry officer Laurence Bartram is called to the small village of Easton Deadall he is struck by the beauty of the place: a crumbling stately home; a centuries-old church; & a recently planted maze a memorial to the men of the village almost all of whom died in one heroic battle in 1916. But it soon becomes clear to Laurence that while rest of the country is alight with hope for the first time since the end of the War as the first Labour government takes power the Wiltshire village is haunted by its tragic past. In 1911 five-year-old Kitty Easton disappeared from her bed & has not been seen since: only her fragile mother believes still she is alive. When a family trip to the Empire Exhibition in London ends in disaster & things take an increasingly sinister turn Laurence struggles to find out what has happened as it seems that the fate of the house the men & of Kitty herself may be part of a much longer darker story of love betrayal
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Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. ' He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks he had been afraid of going to sleep.. .' Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in Engl&. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces the stiff & reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton an open & cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. As the pair approach the front line to the proximity of death & destruction their strange friendship deepens. But each knows that soon they will be separated...A remarkable feat of imaginative & descriptive writing". (The Times). " The feeling of men under appalling stress at a particular moment in history is communicated with almost uncanny power". (Sunday Times). " Truly Astonishing". (Daily Telegraph). Susan Hill's novels include I'm the King of the Castle & Mrs de Winter a sequel to Du Maurier's Rebecca. She is also well known for her children's books (including Can It Be True? which won the Smarties Prize). She has written non-fiction & autobiography & is a regular broadcaster & reviewer. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells & they live in a Gloucestershire village from which she runs a small publishing company called Long Barn Books." ...

Strange Meetings" provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918 written through a series of actual encounters or near-encounters from Siegfried Sassoons first blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys & bacon at Eddie Marshs breakfasts before the war through famous moments like Sassoons encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomas widow & Ivor Gurney in 1932; & the last strange lunch & longish talk of Sassoon & David Jones in 1964 half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets & writers we encounter are Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Robert Nichols & Edmund Blunden. Ricketts unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships marking their responses to each others work & showing how these affected their own poetry
- one potent strand for example is the profound influence of Brooke both as a model to follow & a burden to reject. The stories become intensely personal & vivid
- we come to know each of the poets their family & intellectual backgrounds & their very different personalities. & while the accounts of individual lives achieve the imaginative vividness of a novel they also give us an entirely fresh sense of Georgian poetry conveying all the excitement & frustration of poetic creation & demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be about became fractured & changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war."

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Strange Meetings provides a highly original account of the War Poets of 1914-1918 written through a series of actual encounters or near-encounters from Siegfried Sassoons first blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys & bacon at Eddie Marshs breakfasts before the war through famous moments like Sassoons encouragement of Owen when both are in hospital at the same time; on to the poignant meeting between Edward Thomass widow & Ivor Gurney in 1932; & the last strange lunch & longish talk of Sassoon & David Jones in 1964 half a century after the great war began. Among the other poets & writers we encounter are Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Robert Nichols & Edmund Blunden. Rickettss unusual approach allows him to follow their relationships marking their responses to each others work & showing how these affected their own poetry
- one potent strand for example is the profound influence of Brooke both as a model to follow & a burden to reject. The stories become intensely personal & vivid
- we come to know each of the poets their family & intellectual backgrounds & their very different personalities. & while the accounts of individual lives achieve the imaginative vividness of a novel they also give us an entirely fresh sense of Georgian poetry conveying all the excitement & frustration of poetic creation & demonstrating how the whole notion of what poetry should be about became fractured & changed for ever by the terrible experiences of the war.

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For over thirty years John Simpson has travelled the world to report on the most significant events of our time. From being punched in the stomach by Harold Wilson on one of his first days as a reporter to escaping summary execution in Beirut flying into Teheran with the returning Ayatollah Khomeini & narrowly avoiding entrapment by a beautiful Czech secret agent Simpson has had an astonishingly eventful career. In 1989 he witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre the fall of the Berlin Wall & the collapse of Communism throughout Eastern Europe & only weeks later in South Africa the release of Nelson Mandela. With Simpsons uncanny knack of being in the right place at the right time this autobiography is a ring-side seat at every major event in recent global history. So vivid I could feel my heart beating Jonathan Mirsky Spectator great stories sometimes harrowing sometimes hilarious.
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