content: I admire the actual story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as well as the personal history and other works of Robert Louis Stevenson.This afterword, however, of Jerome Charyn's is almost more than I can bear.I'll be frank. Is this an afterword with supposed insightful information into the nuances of the story, and or the writer/period/genre, or a freakin book report. Kids, if you're buying this book for class, get this edition and don't even bother reading the actual story if you're not interested. Skip to the very back and you'll find all the multi-paragraph quotes you can handle, as well as rambling general encyclopaedic info on Robert Louis Stevenson.I think I wrote an "essay" exactly like this as a freshman in highschool english class and received a C for lack of creativity and effort. That's not exactly a compliment for you Mr. Charyn.