The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales (Modern Library Classics)

This volume brings together all Stevenson's short stories and novellas. Yes, it doesn't have his full-length works such as The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, Treasure Island, etc., but I disagree with the reviewer who gave it two stars on that account. As far as I know, in common usage, the term "stories" means short stories, and doesn't encompass "novels."I've read "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" more times than I can remember, and never tire of it. Nothing else in this volume is quite as memorable--there's a reason Jekyll and Hyde is his best-known work. But Stevenson is one of the great stylists of the English language, and the rest of the stories are just as superbly written. Many of the stories are comic, many are action-packed, and all are eminently enjoyable. I particularly like "The Bottle Imp" and "Will o'the Mill." The introduction by Barry Menikoff provides an appreciative analysis of Stevenson's work, and the notes to each story are helpful.This edition is preferable to  The Complete Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson: With A Selection Of The Best Short Novels , edited by Charles Neider. The latter is a good bit more expensive, while inexplicably leaving out a number of stories.

I'm currently reading this book and I've really enjoyed it so far. I thought I'd take a look on here to see what other people thought, and to my surprise, there were no reviews. Well, I'm here to fix that.I picked this up mainly because I wanted to read Jeckyll & Hyde, which turned out to be an entertaining (and also thought provoking) tale. I've read several of the other short stories over the past few weeks, and they're all well done. If you're even a little interested in Stevenson, I recommend taking a look at this edition. You get a great price, plenty of stories, and a cool-looking cover to boot--can't beat it!

When I was in high school - 60 years ago - I had a paperback copy of the Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson. As I read the stories, I circled the words I didn't know and looked them up later. The stories were too engrossing to interrupt my reading. I increased my vocabulary ten fold, whetted my appetite for good writing and planted the seeds for my own prose and poetry. I'm sending one volume to the grandkids "trapped in Boston" and looking forward to reading the other volume before giving it to the local granddaughters here in God's Country.

I read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for my Victorian Literature class and found it to be an excellent piece of work. Look forward to reading the other stories.

2 sides of the review:Stevenson: a genius. Very engaging, very smart. If you're new to Stevenson, start with Jekyll & Hyde.The book: Good paper quality, and binding. Not the best in the world, but very good value for the money.I bought it as a present, and liked it so much I bought it for myself too :)In short, a must if you're interested in 19th century fiction.

This has proved to be an excellent purchase for a friend who is a lover of well written stories. The excellent introduction by Barry Menikoff and the informative notes truly help the reader in their appreciation of these stories.

This is a nicely produced anthology of Stevenson's shorter fiction, including Jekyll and Hyde. This book shows the range of Stevenson's work quite well and contains some of his best work. Much of this work is more discursive than much later fiction.

This is probably the best available edition of RLS's short(er) fiction, but it does not include the follow-up to New Arabian Nights - a major collection of linked stories, fitfully "coauthored" with his wife, entitled More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. This last is frustratingly difficult to come by, especially through major publishers. Whatever the level and amount of Fanny's contributions, these stories have to be considered essential to future "complete" editions. I suspect licensing issues, but publishers are curiously averse to issuing the collaborative efforts of noted authors, even where these were common professional practice. As other reviewers have noted, the lack of RLS's novels here is not a legitimate criticism.One further note. Menikoff's lengthy introduction is illuminating in a hundred ways, but this critic's claims for Steveson as the fons et origo of the English short story are hard to swallow. Because Menikoff cannot possibly be overlooking the 19th century tradition of anglophone short fiction that flourished at home (if home is England) and abroad, he must mean the modern short story, at which point his claims become specious. There is certainly much that is unique in Stevenson's tales, but their uniqueness rewards analysis far more than it supports some modern advent. I would think it would be far more interesting to point out the innovative continuity of something like "A Pavilion on the Links" with Gothic tradition than to cite it as a sea-change. Stevenson updates so many of the old tropes that his tales often refresh tradition as much as they novelize it.

era para un regalo y acerté, buena presentación, tiene buena pinta

Libri presi per mio figlio .Consegna è stato merce nella norma .Tutto ok

A master story-teller.