By Robert Louis Stevenson
Contributor note: Ilustrations by way of de Mervyn Peake
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«Y es que ciertamente parece que una personificación de Hyde aceptablemente realista anda suelta por Whitechapel», decía l. a. Pall Mall Gazette el eight de septiembre de 1888 en referencia al segundo asesinato de Jack el Destripador. los angeles novela de Stevenson El extraño caso del healthcare professional Jekyll y el señor Hyde se había publicado dos años antes, en 1886, y se prestaba ya a esta clase de comparaciones. Había entrado de lleno en el imaginario renowned y aún hoy, en el siglo XXI, no somos inmunes a su efecto. El caso «esclavizaba» ya l. a. «imaginación» del abogado Utterson, a quien le fue dada los angeles terrible experiencia de ser testigo de l. a. historia; podemos decir que también esclaviza l. a. de sus lectores. Construido como una investigación detectivesca, con una forma narrativa diáfana y perfecta, este «relato alegórico que finge ser policial», según diría Borges, es sin duda una de las piezas maestras de su autor.
Esta edición presenta el texto en una nueva traducción de Catalina Martínez Muñoz, con las ilustraciones de Mervyn Peake para l. a. edición de The Folio Society de 1948. Incluye asimismo un memorable artículo de Stevenson sobre l. a. inspiración de los angeles obra y un revelador apéndice de Robert Mighall que los angeles sitúa en el contexto científico, psiquiátrico y criminológico de l. a. época.
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1832 Becomes Parliamentary reporter on the True Sun. 1833 Concludes relationship with Maria Beadnell; first story, ‘A Dinner at Poplar Walk’ (later called ‘Mr Minns and his Cousin’), published in Monthly Magazine. ) moves to Furnival’s Inn, Holborn. May) Engaged to Catherine Hogarth (‘Kate’); publishes stories, sketches, and scenes in Monthly Magazine, Evening Chronicle, and Bell’s Life in London. xlvii Historical and Cultural Background Reform Bill. Major cholera epidemic. Michael Faraday’s electro-magnetic current.
Performances of The Frozen Deep in London and, with Ellen Ternan, her sister, and mother in the cast, in Manchester. liii Historical and Cultural Background Lord Palmerston PM. Newspaper tax abolished. Daily Telegraph, first London penny newspaper, founded. Fall of Sebastopol. 1855–6: G. J. Mendel discovers laws of heredity. Charlotte Brontë and Mary Russell Mitford die. R. Browning, Men and Women; Gaskell, North and South; Longfellow, Hiawatha; Tennyson, Maud and other Poems; Thackeray, The Newcomes, The Rose and the Ring; A.
Ragged School Union. William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect; E. B. Barrett, Poems; Disraeli, Coningsby; Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires; A. W. Kinglake, Eo¯then Disappearance of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to find a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. War with Sikhs. 1845–9: potato famine in Ireland: 1 million die; 8 million emigrate. Thomas Hood and Sydney Smith die. Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics; Disraeli, Sybil; Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England; Poe, The Raven and other Poems, Tales of Mystery and Imagination Corn Laws repealed; Peel resigns; Lord John Russell PM.
