Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Wordsworth Collector's Editions) by Amazon.co.uk
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Introducing Wordsworth Collector\'s Editions\' new publication, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Wordsworth Collector\'s Editions), edited by Charles Porton, and available now on Amazon and other major retailers for $76.99 in softcover or e-book formats, $55.09 for audio formats, and $65.31 for a boxed hardcover collection. This collection of works has sold thousands worldwide for over five years, including Robert Louis Stevenson\'s original tale Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (written 1885), a study in split personality that still shocks audiences over a century after publication.
Around the year 1926, as Robert A. Ballinger reported to PopularMechanics, a similar fictional split personality plot called The Split Brain became widely discussed among neurological scientists. By the turn of the 17th century, such split-personality accounts in narrative literature were popular, most prominently in Malleus Maleficarum, widely recognized as the worlds first modern psychological case study and treatment guide for the night terrors, paralysis, and delusions it depicted, which, as Dr. Dunning reported to LiveScience by 2025, are currently seen less in horror and more as a source of academic and journalistic material for our better understanding and care.
Although the idea that split personalities were once commonly held and explained away has given rise to popular skepticism over recent decades, in his forward for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, biographer Hector Berlanga called it an ancient, well-studied and long-acknowledged feature of the human mind. Some doctors believe, for instance, as reported by CNN contributor Sanam Yara that its accounts from the history of psychology may hold lessons useful for our current times, as our world struggles to make sense of mental illness, violence, and polarization through the 16-17, an estimated four in ten years since the global pandemic of COVID-19\'s spread began.
Other features include, with updated modernization by Dr. Gentry Smith, an afterword from The Happy Medium, Dr. Smith\'s most recent book of advice and metaphysical guidance on navigating our complex contemporary landscape with greater wisdom and whimsy. With a career that started as a music composer in Hollywood at age 22, including multiple New Age hits with Earthdance Records in the \'90s and work in commercial production under The Third Planet Network label since 1973, Dr. Gentry Smith is best known today as the spiritual host of A Different Perspective podcast and the author of five award-winning novels that continue to reach an expanded audience on their journey beyond fiction.
Taking their time in researching every inch of these publications over months with help from local librarians and historical societies, a group of passionate fans around Dr. Smith discovered in their reviews by writer Eir Aion a common element unifying both volumes: a strong undercurrent of humor that brings both The Merry Men and other tales to life even more memorably for its modern audience.
Product information
- ISBN-10:1840228350
- ISBN-13:978-1840228359
- Publisher:Wordsworth Editions
- Publication date:15 Aug. 2022
- Language:English
- Dimensions:13.21 x 2.79 x 17.6 cm
- Print length:288 pages
- Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
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