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Book Synopsis The Transforming Draught by : Thomas L. Reed, Jr.
Download or read book The Transforming Draught written by Thomas L. Reed, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is viewed as the classic allegory of man's duality--the good and evil embodied in every person. But could Jekyll's "transforming draught" have been alcohol? In the Victorian era, alcohol was the topic of national debate for decades and people endlessly deliberated its proper place in society. Shadowed all his life by the cloud of alcoholism, Stevenson well knew the good and evil of strong drink. This book investigates Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an allegory of alcoholism--an interpretation that cultural change and the story's renown have perhaps obscured. The author examines patterns of language, plot, characterization and imagery to reveal how mind-altering drink figures as the story's subtext. Early chapters establish the story's literal references to strong drink and its metaphors regarding alcohol. The focus then shifts to drinking in Stevenson's life, the sociology of drink in Victorian Britain, and the portrayal of alcohol in literature, including Stevenson's other works. Possible real-life models for the Jekyll-Hyde character are explored. Subsequent chapters examine the history of Britain's temperance movement, scenes that arose from Stevenson's dreams, how the temperance movement and industrial development may have influenced the story, and the story's interpretation in Stevenson's time. An appendix further investigates the elements of Stevenson's language.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886 by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886 written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1886 as a "shilling shocker," Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde takes the basic struggle between good and evil and adds to the mix bourgeois respectability, urban violence, and class conflict. The result is a tale that has taken on the force of myth in the popular imagination. This Broadview edition provides a fascinating selection of contextual material, including contemporary reviews of the novel, Stevenson's essay "A Chapter on Dreams," and excerpts from the 1887 stage version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Also included are historical documents on criminality and degeneracy, the "Jack the Ripper" murders, and London in the 1880s. New to this second edition are an updated critical introduction and, in the appendices, writings on Victorian psychology by Thomas Carlyle, Richard Krafft-Ebing, and Henry Maudsley, among others.
Book Synopsis Geoecology and Computers by : SergeyA. Yufin
Download or read book Geoecology and Computers written by SergeyA. Yufin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents technical papers devoted to development and practical use of computer methods in geotechnical and geoenviromental engineering. It covers issues on space use and construction, soil and rock mechanics, and mining applications amongst other topics.
Book Synopsis Inquiring into Human Enhancement by : Sylvie Allouche
Download or read book Inquiring into Human Enhancement written by Sylvie Allouche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.
Book Synopsis The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author :Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :278 pages Book Rating :4.R/5 (5 download)
Book Synopsis The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering by : Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England)
Download or read book The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering written by Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1871-1874 by : Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England)
Download or read book The Annual of the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1871-1874 written by Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual by : Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Download or read book Annual written by Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ian Rankin & Inspector Rebus by : Craig Cabell
Download or read book Ian Rankin & Inspector Rebus written by Craig Cabell and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with insightful interviews with Rankin, plotlines, story analysis, and a complete collector's guide, this fascinating accompaniment to a much-loved series will thrill both the initiated and the soon-to-be Detective John Rebus first appeared in Ian Rankin's 1987 bestseller Knots and Crosses and has since gone on to appear in 17 books and numerous short stories, delighting readers and setting a benchmark in contemporary crime fiction. These notoriously gritty stories have been adapted into a television series--the public cannot get enough of this hard-drinking, no-nonsense, complex detective. Although the fictional Inspector retired to the backwaters of Edinburgh's dark side in the 2007 novel Exit Music, the books endure. This book draws from extensive interviews with Rankin to explore the writer, his creation, and how their relationship has developed over the years. It also investigates the dark cellars and sinister back streets of Rebus' Edinburgh--a dark, foreboding city shattering any stereotypes of shortbread and kilts. Learn about the unusual connection between Rankin and Rebus, how the author was a punk musician and swineherd before becoming a writer, and why he was so inspired by fellow Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and his masterpiece The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Book Synopsis The Transformation of a Peasant Economy by : John Goodacre
Download or read book The Transformation of a Peasant Economy written by John Goodacre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.
Book Synopsis The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book which put Stevenson's name in the mouth of the ' man in the street,' lifted him at a single bound to a place among men of the time and, by the still greater sensation which it created in America, led to the large income which soon afterwards he drew from the United States. The ear of a great public to whom his earlier writings were unknown was captured by this intense picture of the elements of good and evil in man's nature. It was hailed from pulpits and in the religious press as a great moral parable; though its moral quality, on close analysis, is seen to be more an illusion, due to the art of its writing, than the essence of the fable. Reduced to its simplest formula Jekyll and Hyde is a cry of terror at the potency for evil latent in the human soul. Such moral force as it has depends upon its assault on the nerves, not on its appeal to the heart. If not thus interpreted by the preachers of the time, it yet served the purpose of moving their hearers by the spectacle of the evil partner in the human ego, indulged in a moment ' when virtue slumbered,' coming in the end to destroy the good.
Book Synopsis THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by : ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Download or read book THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE written by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON and published by PURE SNOW PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is a classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson about of man’s inner struggle between good and evil. The story revolves around the investigation by John Utterson, a lawyer, concerning the association between Dr. Henry Jekyll and the morally corrupt Edward Hyde, to whom Jekyll has recently willed his estate. Through the use of a magic serum Jekyll is transformed into Hyde which he does so in order to indulge in the darker side of his character. After a time Jekyll finds that he is involuntarily turning into Hyde and must use the serum, which is running low, to turn back.
Book Synopsis The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: The merry men, and other tales and fables. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: The merry men, and other tales and fables. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Om Illustrated Classics by : Charles Dickens
Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde : Om Illustrated Classics written by Charles Dickens and published by Om Books International. This book was released on with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a fascinating storyabout the battle of good versus evil. It also explores the limitsof scientific research and the dark side of man. The story is toldthrough the eyes of a respectable lawyer called Mr Utterson whois worried for his friend, Dr Henry Jekyll because of his closeassociation with a violent man—Mr Hyde. Despite Mr Utterson’sattempts to speak to his friend, Dr Jekyll completely avoids thesubject. Matters get even more worrisome and complicated whenthe Will of Jekyll is discovered; it clearly states that if he disappearsor dies his fortune will be left to Hyde. Hyde is then seen going intoDr Jekyll’s home several times on different nights. How are the twomen connected? Dr Jekyll is a kind and responsible man but it seemsthat he is protecting Hyde–why?Read the brilliantly illustrated classic to discover the terrible secretthat connects them!
Book Synopsis Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In original paper wrappers.
Book Synopsis The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: The merry men and other tales by : Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: The merry men and other tales written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
