Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

6 best books like Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales (Robert Louis Stevenson): The Castle of Otranto, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, Bend Sinister, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob, All the Bad Apples

The Castle of Otranto

Author	Horace Walpole
ISBN	0192834401

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the Second Edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern." Crammed with invention,...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Author	Charles Dickens
ISBN	0140439056

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'Merry Christmas!...every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'

Dickens' story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series...

Bend Sinister

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0141185767

The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine ‘Average Man’ party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of thought. Only John Krug, a brilliant philosopher, stands up to the regime. His antagonist,...

The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Author	Janice Galloway
ISBN	1564780813

Janice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The problems of everyday living accumulate and begin to torture Joy, who blames her problems not on her work or on the accidental drowning of her illicit lover, but on herself. While painful...

The Lifted Veil / Brother Jacob

Author	George Eliot
ISBN	0192832956

First published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1859, The Lifted Veil is now one of George Eliot's most widely read and critically discussed short stories. A dark fantasy drawing on contemporary scientific interest in the physiology of the brain, mesmerism, phrenology, and experiments in revification,...

All the Bad Apples

Author

Moïra Fowley-Doyle

The day after the funeral all our mourning clothes hung out on the line like sleeping bats. 'This will be really embarrassing,' I kept saying to my family, 'when she shows up at the door in a week or two.'

When Deena's wild and mysterious sister Mandy disappears - presumed dead - her family are heartbroken....