Review Copy with review page laid-in. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Donald is the author of several biographies, including Cochrane: Britannia's Sea Wolf and Robert Browning: A Life Within Life, which was runner-up for the Whitbread Prize. He also writes fiction and is a prize-winning poet (his collection Points of Contact won the Eric Gregory Award)." (from FantasticFiction).

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Title: Jekyll, Alias Hyde
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, New York
Publication Date: 1988
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0312025920
ISBN 13: 9780312025922
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing.
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Reconsiders often-examined details of Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," exploring the possibility that the story is not actually a tale of supernatural transformation but one of veiled blackmail and murder

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Thomas's unsatisfying "variation" adds another to the growing list of exploitations of past masters in the mystery-spinning art. The British author borrows Stevenson's characters and invents others, like daughters for the lawyer Utterson, the eldest of whom, Romana, is nearly a match for lustful and dangerous Edward Hyde. Thomas gives a role to Inspector Swain, the object of Romana's bloodthirsty seductions and investigator of weird events in London during the year 1884. Piling on extras that stray from and dilute the original plot, the author wearies rather than excites, even as he alludes to heavy-breathing sex between Romana and Swain. In the end, the adaptation fails to convince the rader that it reveals the truth about The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
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