A retelling of the classic story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Designed for children from around the age of nine, it is part of the Usborne Classics range, which covers a variety of authors and periods, and seeks to introduce the younger reader to the great works and authors of literature.
This book is part of a book series called Usborne Classics Retold .
There are 143 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .
John Grant is author of about seventy books, including the highly successful Discarded Science, Corrupted Science , and Denying Science . For a number of years he ran the world-famous fantasy artbook publisher Paper Tiger. He has won the Hugo Award (twice), the World Fantasy Award, and various other international literary awards.
This book contains the following story:
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In Robert Louis Stevensons novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll struggles with evil urges and so creates a potion in an attempt to mask the hidden evil within himself. Once taken, the potion unleashes Jekylls inner demon and he becomes the cruel and remorseless Hyde. And as time goes on Hydes strength grows so strong that Jekyll is unable to control it. And all ends tragically.
This book is in the following series:
Classics Retold
Usborne Classics Retold
These simplified and shortened retellings make great literary classics accessible. Each remains faithful to the original text in the treatment of the story.