化身博士：斯蒂文森中短篇小说选

by Robert Louis Stevenson

斯蒂文森虽然以冒险小说成名，但其创作并没有局限在这一条路上，而是走向多种风格。本书选取的《化身博士》就是一篇独特的作品，同时也是斯蒂文森的得意之作。在这篇作品中，作者充分发挥想象力，让一个白天是绅士的人，晚上变成一个恶魔，释放身上的邪恶。这部作品被称为心理小说的先驱，书中“JekyllandHyde”一词甚至成为心理学中“双重人格”的代称，影响力可见一斑。本书选取的另一篇小说《自杀俱乐部》描述了一个复仇的故事，也充满奇特的想象，十分精彩。

312 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2012

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.