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ELT 37:3 1994 biographical elements too much and that he prefers to focus on philosophical and literary influences on Maugham's writing, he concludes his study by suggesting that "in the Maugham narrator, one finds the most characteristic expression of his personality." In the pages between these comments, Archer occasionally touches on the ways in which the Maugham narrator changed over the years from the youthful voice of Orientations in 1899 to the slippered cosmopolitan of the final stories. "The pattern of the narrator," suggests Archer, "represents a unique and lasting contribution to the fiction, not to be replicated by other narrative voices. The Old Party whom Maugham invited his viewers to equate with Ashenden, not only continues to live in Maugham's fiction, he continues to give life to the fiction." Here is an interesting premise on which a useful full-scale study of Maugham's short fiction could be grounded. Without resorting to biographical references, it could provide a fascinating examination of the evolution of the narrative voice in Maugham. Indeed, this kind of criticism, as well as other approaches of critical theory being adopted by a new generation of scholars, is beginning to yield interesting results when applied to Maugham. If Archer's book is not all it might have been, it is nonetheless a useful introduction to Maugham's short fiction. It provides a quick and clear survey of the work, and its judgments, when applied, are sound and sensible. As well, it includes three of Maugham's own discussions of the short story as a genre: his preface to East and West and two notes from Traveller's Library. Finally, it reprints four pieces of criticism, including Angus Wilson's fine introduction to his 1966 collection of Maugham stories and H. E. Bates's discussion of Maugham in relation to Maupassant and Conrad. Robert Calder _________________ University of Saskatchewan Editing as a Duet Richard Dury, ed. The Annotated Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Milan: Guarini Studio, 1993. 187 pp. Paper $25.00 RICHARD DURY1S interesting, useful, and perhaps potentially controversial Annotated Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde differs from the usual annotated edition of a classic text by being exceptionally personal. In his brief preface Dury immediately establishes his authorial persona. He is a teacher and scholar of English language and literature at the University of Bergamo, but he is also an editor who fondly recalls buying 398 BOOK REVIEWS his first second-hand book in a dark shop which smelt of Bibles in Ironbridge Street, Exeter—an edition of More's Utopia to which its editor, H. B. Cotterill, had added a diverse, fascinating, and "heady mixture" of notes. "Since then," Dury explains, "I have loved annotated editions for their woven duet of voices." Dury is indeed a co-singer with Robert Louis Stevenson in this edition of his Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, contributing a sixty-five-page biographical and critical introduction, copious footnotes which occupy probably at least a quarter of the space in the ninety-five pages allotted to the primary text, and an eight-page, single-spaced, up-to-date bibliography of editions, translations , and critical materials. As Dury promises in his preface, he brings together the comments of critics of Stevenson's text and gives his own comments on whatever interests him. Usually Dury draws on recent criticism, and often he mentions materials from William Veeder's and Gordon Hirsch's excellent collection, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde after One Hundred Years (1988), but Diary's range of sources is extensive and his use of them is lively and perceptive. Duty's edition is unusually personal not only because of the extent of his editorial presence but also and especially because, in his duet with Stevenson's text, Dury voices one persistent, dominating point of view. This is what gives the book its special appeal. It is not simply a compilation of data and mere explanation of hard words which might baffle the common reader. The book is a focused and interested dialogue with Stevenson's text. In Duty's preface he explains that he has chosen Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...

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