"The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912.

Hard boards, original green cloth with gold lettering on spine and decoration on front board [a little wear], 5.1/4" x 8"; former owner's ex-libris inside front cover [see photo]; frontispiece and one plate on glossy paper, 407 pages, very good condition.

"The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables" (1887) is a collection of short stories The title derives from the local name given to a group of waves in the title short story, not from the Merry Men of Robin Hood tales.

Stories:

The Merry Men
Will o' the Mill
Markheim
Thrawn Janet
Olalla
The Treasure of Franchard

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic novella. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre. The novella has also had a sizable impact on popular culture, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" being used in vernacular to refer to people with an outwardly good but sometimes shockingly evil nature.

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