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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson

4.01 · Rating details · 34,255 ratings · 675 reviews

Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr. Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men—including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll—are capable of when the constraints of civilized life are loosed. This chilling anthology also collects nine of Stevenson’s best-known tales of horror, including The Body-Snatcher," "Markheim," "Thrawn Janet," "The Bottle Imp," ...more

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Jan 07, 2021 Henk rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, fnl-2021-challenge

Atmospheric and easily read tales of horror, Victorian class society, death and the supernatural. The short format serves the content well in comparison to Dracula and Frankenstein
You can’t begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning; that’s the truth. No rest for the wicked.

Jekyll and Mr Hyde - 3.5 stars
‘If he be Mr Hyde’ he had thoughts, ‘I shall be Mr Seek.’
Oh Robert Louis Stevenson went there himself 😂

Good in atmosphere, there is even fog in rooms in London.
The feel is quit ...more

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Nov 26, 2008 Danielle The Book Huntress (Back to the Books) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: Readers who enjoy mystery/suspense and a little gothic horror

Shelves: victorian, gaslit-horror, favorite-or-autobuy-author, classic-horror, epistolary-narrative, short-story-collection, classic, thriller-suspense, science-fiction, psychological-horror

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories turned out to be a relatively quick read. Here are my thoughts on these stories:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

This was a little different than I expected. It's rather introspective, if that's an appropriate word. The emphasis is not on the action or the dirty deeds that Mr. Hyde perpetrates. Instead, the focus is on the duality of the natures of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In truth, they are not separate men. They are two di ...more

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Oct 11, 2017 Leo . rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

These greats from the past wrote in such a sophisticated way. One could really learn a lot about how the written word is used and how language was more eloquent back then. Words were used just like a painter uses the paint to blend and manipulate the pigments on canvas for a picture to manifest. A single brush stroke could be the virtual equivalent of a beautiful sentence. I often wonder that if the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson were around today what would he think of the smart phone? He woul ...more

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Oct 21, 2015 Eilonwy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I only read the first four or five stories in this, but they were all interesting, if a bit products of their times.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a weird read for me, since the story really needs ignorance to work well, I think. So sadly, I don't think I appreciated it the way someone might if they came upon it without prior knowledge of the twist. It was clearly good, but I was more bored than enthralled, unfortunately.

The other stories I read were much more enjoyable because I had no idea what ...more

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Mar 22, 2017 Quirkyreader rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This was a good story. It also had some very horrific parts. Reading it has made me appreciate Stevnson's work on even more. ...more

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Nov 17, 2008 Trevor rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, mystery

I can’t really tell you what I was expecting when I started this story – except, of course, that I wasn’t quite expecting what I got.

This is another of those ‘classic tales’ that I’ve long assumed I’ve known, but never have really known at all. I had images in my head of foaming test tubes or beakers and of hair spouting from the backs of hands. To be honest, I also had visions of lots of sex too. Unlike Frankenstein, this story mostly lives up to what I guess could be called its image in the po ...more

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Dec 17, 2015 Ashleigh (a frolic through fiction) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, physically-own

Review originally posted on my book blog: https://afrolicthroughfiction.wordpre...

This review will be done a little differently, as I will be giving a short review for each short story, then an overall rating for the book.

1. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
I went into this story knowing only the tiniest of details, so I was very intrigued to see how I liked it. At first it was difficult to get into, because I had to get used to the writing and the time frame seems to jump around a bi ...more

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Apr 14, 2019 BLynne rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I really enjoyed this classic. Still enjoyed the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I also enjoyed the short story titled The Suicide Club. For me this is a creepy classic that is fun to read.

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Aug 03, 2009 Shannon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Jekyll and Hyde: The dual nature

This is also available at my blog, 149 Novels.

There's a popular question: if you could choose a super power, would you choose flight, or invisibility? The question is deceptive, because it's not just about entering the world of comic book heroes. It's about why you want that power. People who want to fly want to get someplace quickly, want to stop paying for transportation, and want to show off. In an episode of This American Life, one man specifically says that Jekyll and Hyde: The dual nature

This is also available at my blog, 149 Novels.

There's a popular question: if you could choose a super power, would you choose flight, or invisibility? The question is deceptive, because it's not just about entering the world of comic book heroes. It's about why you want that power. People who want to fly want to get someplace quickly, want to stop paying for transportation, and want to show off. In an episode of This American Life, one man specifically says that all the girls would want to sleep with the flying guy. People who want to be invisible want to get into movies for free, spy on people, and steal clothing - assuming anything that they are wearing is also invisible. No one would use their powers to fight crime (which is reasonable, because they do not have super strength, or immortality).

I thought of this question and its moral implications while reading The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Dr. Jekyll believes that all humans are divided creatures, split between good and evil. He wishes that the human mind could be freed from the struggle to reconcile the two, and so he uses his medical knowledge of drugs and their side effects to make a compound that will divide the low from the high. He feels as if doing this will allow him to become two separate people, and even creates a name for his darker self. But he soon learns that he cannot be free from the crimes of Mr. Hyde, which were far darker than he predicted.

I liked this story a lot, and recommend it. It's good to read a well-known classic and see how it was originally presented, free from the various adaptations. I like that, while it is essentially a horror story, it has an element of science fiction, with Jekyll's reference to experimenting with drugs that have known side effects. I was delighted that it is not revealed that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person until you are well into the novel, which seems to me an especially Victorian element. It's smartly written with an effort towards timelessness - Hyde goes out at night and does evil things. We don't know what - it is left to us to imagine what he does, to adjust his crimes to our own sense of evil.

According to some reading I've done on the novel's meaning, the Victorian interpretation was that good and evil exist in everyone, and attempts to repress your darker nature will cause it to erupt, and will cause great outbursts of evil. In my own reading of the novel, I perceive that Jekyll was more evil than he admits before dividing his soul. He wished that he could live without the struggle between his evil nature and Victorian morality, and his desire to free his evil side is the goal, not an effort to create a personality of pure goodness. At his transformation, he delights in the feeling of losing the reservations of morality. Only in fear for his life does he regret what he has done. The true horror of the tale is that he is a man without remorse throughout.

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Next up is Dune by Frank L. Herbert. It comes highly recommended by a few fans of the novel. It is also difficult to find at the library; the library search engine is not designed to provide simple results for a simple search. When you type in "Dune", it pulls up an entire page of various novels in the Dune series, putting them in no logical order, so that you have to move on to the second page of results just to locate the first novel in the series. And of course, then you have to keep searching to find copies that are available at your local library. I think the catalog divides them between distinct editions of books, because a search for one novel may turn up several different results which are all the same novel, along with a few books about Dune, a book on dune buggies, and a children's book about deserts.
This is not meant as a complaint on my local libraries, which are excellent. I just wish some local benevolent tech genius would donate a new search engine to the library. ...more

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Oct 27, 2019 AziaMinor rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: owned-and-finished, why-did-i-read-this

DNF at 10% because I forgot how stupidly BORING I find Robert Louis Stevenson's books are. This is one of those rare times where I'd rather watch the movies than try to read any of these dull stories ...more

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Sep 02, 2020 Krystal rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, collector-s-library, must-re-read, horror, delayed-review

I'm going through and correcting the editions of the books I have, and with the classics its becoming quite interesting to discover how many incarnations there are!

For example, this particular edition contains several stories (only three of which I actually read, including the titular story) whereas I've had it sitting on my shelf as just the single story.

I read this one a fair while ago, and was surprised that it was only a short story! It ended up being a little disappointing - I've seen so ma ...more

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Jan 23, 2018 Stephanie (Reading is Better With Cupcakes) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, scifi-fantasy, classic, paranormal, horror, read-2018

I read this one so I had something to base any retellings I read about the infamous Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story on.

I like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I didn't perceive it to read as dark as I thought it would based upon my other encounters with the story. But it was good and entertaining.

I also enjoyed the Suicide Club a lot. I found myself pretty pulled into that story.

There was one story in this collection of short stories that I am still not 100% sure what went down. It was the narrator. Not t ...more

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Jun 29, 2011 Jason rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Recommends it for: horror, gothic, thriller lovers

Recommended to Jason by: It was a cheap purchase.

Shelves: 2011, classics, horror

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Somewhere in the second trimester of fetal development of first world babies, knowledge of the story of Jekyll and Hyde is passed down the umbilical cord from mother to child, and thus are we all born with a basic understanding of this tale of duality. It is nearly impossible to live in a developed country and not understand a Jekyll and Hyde reference. Since I felt I already knew the story, and that the surprise ending is forever ruined for everyone alive today, I put off reading it until I was Somewhere in the second trimester of fetal development of first world babies, knowledge of the story of Jekyll and Hyde is passed down the umbilical cord from mother to child, and thus are we all born with a basic understanding of this tale of duality. It is nearly impossible to live in a developed country and not understand a Jekyll and Hyde reference. Since I felt I already knew the story, and that the surprise ending is forever ruined for everyone alive today, I put off reading it until I was 32 years old, but I'm glad that I've now checked it out.

It's my understanding that of all the film adaptations of this book (of which there are well over 100), not a single one of them gets it just right. The main character isn't Jekyll/Hyde, but John Utterson, a friend of Dr. Jekyll. This poor chap isn't even in most of the movies, I don't think. Anyway, the story is told from his point of view, not J/H's. And while Utterson is missing in most film versions, you know who is missing from the book? The woman! She doesn't exist. There is no tragic romance and eventual damsel in distress in the book at all. It's not even mentioned. It's a never-was.

So, what really happens? We learn from a friend of Utterson's that a Mr. Hyde was seen trampling a little girl, and was forced to pay her family. Hyde presented a check written by Dr. Jekyll, a well respected physician and friend of Utterson's. This baffles Utterson, but Jekyll assures him it's legit, and that Hyde is Jekyll's beneficiary. Utterson can't understand it, but is told to wash his hands of the matter, and he does. Jekyll had been flying low under the radar during all this. Hyde kind of disappears for a bit, but reemerges and kills a man. He's hunted down, but escapes. In his house is found the murder weapon, a cane that Utterson himself had given to Jekyll as a gift a while back. Jekyll is confronted with this bit of intel, and he assures Utterson and the cops that he has permanently ended his association with Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll reemerges into society, and is his old bubbly social-butterfly self for a few months, then suddenly he locks himself up in his house and refuses to see people. He sends his staff on errands for various drugs so he can make his crystal meth, but nobody ever sees Dr. J; they just receive his instructions from behind a closed door. The staff is now living in terror because they believe Mr. Hyde has come back and taken Jekyll prisoner, or something like that. The butler decides enough is enough, and tells Utterson what's going on. Utterson and the butler hit up Dr. J's lab, bust down the door and find Mr. Hyde dead on the floor wearing Dr. Jekyll's clothes, but there's no sign of Dr. J. They find a diary from Dr. Jekyll which explains everything, and he had somehow kept it hidden from Mr. Hyde.

The long and short of it is this (as if you need to be told since you gained this information during prenatal development): Jekyll had made a potion which allowed him to entertain his more immoral desires with impunity which also altered his physical appearance to the point that he didn't even resemble his real self in the slightest. At first all was fine, and he had fun with sin, but then the sins started getting a bit serious. He tried to curtail, but it was difficult. After Hyde murdered the one dude, Jekyll cut it off cold turkey, and all was well for a while. But then Hyde started coming out while Jekyll was asleep, and Jekyll, while looking like Hyde, had to take the potion to turn back into his original self. Eventually Hyde just started showing up whenever he felt like it, so Jekyll locked himself away in his lab. He sent his staff all over the city for one ingredient he needed to make the potion, and the ingredient needed to be 100% pure and unsullied. He got this ingredient from several apothecaries, but with the same disastrous results: the potion didn't work. It turns out that it was an impurity in the ingredient in the original potion that made the magic happen, oh woe is Jekyll. As Jekyll wrote this in his journal, he felt Hyde coming again, and knew he would never be Dr. Jekyll again since he was a) out of the original potion and b) not strong enough to put Hyde away anymore. It's around this point that Utterson breaks in, and that's the end of the tale. (Insert dramatic music stab here).

I understand better now why this is deemed a classic. The way it unfolds on the pages sets it apart from the movie adaptations, and makes it a much better story than I thought it would be. Reading it with a fresh and open mind was difficult since it's ingrained in my head from birth, but I can see why it was such a huge hit when it came out.

A bit of background about how this novella came to be because it's one of those amazing stories: Stevenson was not a well man. He was on bed rest, not allowed to talk or move, and doped up on the leading opiate of the day when he started screaming in his sleep one afternoon. His wife was alarmed, and woke him up. Instead of thanking her, he admonished her saying something like "What'd you do that for? I was having an awesome nightmare!" That "fine bogey tale" (Stevenson's exact words) was the basis of "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." (The "The" was left off intentionally by Stevenson, but publishers added it after he died). For the next three days Louis wrote like a madman (probably because he was one), and presented the first draft to his wife. She had literary aspirations of her own, and was a harsh critic. She said it was a fine horror tale, but really it sucked monkey balls. While her back was turned, Louis burned the manuscript for fear that he might be tempted to use it. Also, he was really fricking pissed off and it was his way of saying "Well fine! Take a load off, Fanny!" (Fanny was Mrs. S's name, and nobody in the Stevenson household enjoyed their afternoon tea for a while after the page burning incident). So, he wrote it again, this time taking six days instead of three. He added allegorical elements (one of Fanny's suggestions), and shat out the classic that is now the frame of our concept of duality in modern society. Three days later after Fanny had finished editing it, it was sent off. A little over two months later it was published, and sold forty thousand copies within a year. It was discussed and written about all over the English speaking world, and used in church sermons. Soon it would be made into stage plays. When radio and film entertainment got fired up, it would invade those mediums, and 125 years after its initial publication, it is still relevant.

How many stories can make that claim? ...more

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Mar 26, 2017 Nostalgia Reader rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: rereads, justines-library, buddy-reads, the-lair, buzz-complete, for-hs, z-victorian-hugos-on-io9

3.8 star average across all stories, rounding up to 4 stars.

After reading this entire book, rather than just Jekyll & Hyde, my J&H review still stands from a few years ago (click through to read it here).

Scroll down to see star ratings and brief comments on how AMAZINGLY AMAZING Stevenson's short stories featured in here are. Really, this dude is like Poe for a modern (i.e. late 1800s) audience (and an obvious Poe fanboy to boot).

A Lodging for the Night: 4.5 stars. Absolutely delightful.

The Suic ...more

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Oct 19, 2020 Hiba Arrame rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-horror, short-stories, paper-copies

In all the times I heard of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I never thought it to be a short story; for some reason, I have always assumed it to be a novel. That being said, I'm no big fan of short stories, they always feel abrupt to me (if you didn't know, I love bulky books) and needing more material to them.

In this collection, the only stories I liked and enjoyed were the one of Dr Jekyll and the Body Snatcher.
Surprisingly, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde made me think so much of the Picture of Dorian Gray, and ...more

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Jun 16, 2017 Maud rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: stand-alone

I will write something when we get back from picking up our kitten <3

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May 18, 2010 colleen the convivial curmudgeon rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror-esque, lit

Jekyll and Hyde is one of those stories that everyone 'knows' but very few people actually have read. I was well aquainted with the general idea of the story from it's various permutations, but this is the first time I read it. One of the major differences is that in almost every version I can think of, Hyde is some hulking brute, but in the story he's actually smaller, physically. I found that interesting, and odd.

Other than that, though, I wasn't entirely enthralled with the story - mostly, I Jekyll and Hyde is one of those stories that everyone 'knows' but very few people actually have read. I was well aquainted with the general idea of the story from it's various permutations, but this is the first time I read it. One of the major differences is that in almost every version I can think of, Hyde is some hulking brute, but in the story he's actually smaller, physically. I found that interesting, and odd.

Other than that, though, I wasn't entirely enthralled with the story - mostly, I think, because I already knew the 'twist'. I did enjoy the writing, though, and found it interesting. I would give it 3 stars.

But there were other stories in this book, all of which connected on the general theme of human nature and our propensities and choices to do good or evil.

'The Bodysnatcher' was a good story - dark and sinister, and I enjoyed the ending. It explores the way that people who generally consider themselves good people can be lead along the path of doing wrong by not speaking up, by looking the other way, and then being - or at least feeling - trapped on the path of their silence. "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," as the saying goes. I give it 4 stars.

Next was a very short short story called 'Markheim', in which a man murders a shop owner. He says it is justice, but we never really learn the reason. The beginning of the story is very good, following the murders thoughts - fear of discovery, disgust and yet triumph at the act, thoughts regarding the state and nature of death, his growing paranoia, and insistence at being just. It is delicious reading. But then it sort of devolves into cliche when another man shows up, and argues with him that he is not the good person he thinks he is. The ending, while admirable, is also predictable. Then again, it might not have been a hundred or so years ago. I give this 3 1/2

Last it 'The Imp Bottle' - a tale of an imp granting wishes, but with the cost of the immortal soul, if the person can not sell the bottle. It goes through several vagueries, and is told more like a folk tale than with the same literary styles of the other stories. All in all this was my least favorite of the lot. I'd give it 2 1/2. ...more

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Oct 15, 2010 Cindy rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: whack-a-doo, 1001-books, horror

Party of my creepy Halloween reads. boo!

Just a quick note: Jeckyll & Hyde was fairly entertaining, filled with the archaic Victorian verbal effluvia. "It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture." Oh those lawny textures! As usual with these old stories, the mechanisms of the story telling (from the POV of a 3rd party, the tale in retrospect, and telling instead of ...more

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Dec 01, 2014 Sharmishtha Basu rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Read the book at least a dozen times, it is a wonderful, heartbreaking story of a genius! one truly wonders what will happen if we feed and release the black wolf that we keep dormant inside us (at least most of us do), if it is fed and then unleashed it certainly will slaughter the white one and become our master.

Reality in wraps of science fiction.

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Oct 30, 2020 Zardoz rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I read a classic horror story/novel each year and went for this one for 2020. My first Robert Louis Stevenson did not disappoint. Jekyll and Hyde holds up very well. I would give it 5 stars and much better than Dracula and Frankenstein were.
Other stories were...
The Body -Snatchers 4 stars
Markheim 3 stars
Olalla 4 stars
The Suicide Club 2 stars

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Dec 09, 2015 Justin Kung rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book that I would recommend to readers who enjoy a good, suspenseful, enigma. This book has a mixture of horror and mystery. The setting of this story is set near the late nineteenth century so the use of language might be a bit difficult to understand at first, but becomes easier to understand later on in the story. The author does a good job on sending out his message to the readers throughout the whole story. This book is about a scientist call The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a book that I would recommend to readers who enjoy a good, suspenseful, enigma. This book has a mixture of horror and mystery. The setting of this story is set near the late nineteenth century so the use of language might be a bit difficult to understand at first, but becomes easier to understand later on in the story. The author does a good job on sending out his message to the readers throughout the whole story. This book is about a scientist called Henry Jekyll making trying to make a potion to completely eliminate the evil out of a human being. However, something goes horribly wrong. When Henry Jekyll drinks the potion, he turns into an ugly, murderous being called Mr. Hyde. When the scientist is Dr. Jekyll, he is a kind and admirable person. When he drinks the potion, he turns pure evil. Jekyll drinks this potion so much that it becomes impossible to handle. The potion becomes useless, and Mr. Hyde pops out of Dr. Jekyll whenever he wants to. The story is mainly about Dr. Jekyll trying to find a way to kill Mr. Hyde and end this chaos. Many readers would think that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two completely different beings. However, the Robert Louis Stevenson's message of the story is that every human being has a pleasant side and an evil side. The author wants the reader to know by the end that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the same people. Dr. Jekyll represents the good soul of the body, and Mr. Hyde represents the evil soul. When Dr. Jekyll decided to kill himself to kill Mr. Hyde, I was both shocked, and satisfied with the ending. This ending thoroughly represented the author's message. Because Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll was the same person, the only way to get rid of Mr. Hyde was to get rid of Dr. Jekyll. While I was reading this book, there were many things that I related to my real life. I've seen the nicest people I know do some horrible things, and this book perfectly shows the story behind it. Many religious beliefs also have the same message with this book. The good karma and bad karma from buddhism, and the yin and yang from taoism. I definitely recommend this book considering that the Robert Louis Stevenson did such a great job on delivering his message. ...more

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Nov 07, 2009 Jaclyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Confession - I joined a new book club. I felt like I was cheating on my California book club. I promise I was thinking about them while we discussed the duality of man - the carnal and the supernal. This concept is one those universal battles that all people face- though many do not acknowledge the battle between being their best self and indulging in life's pleasures. Dr. Jekyll is a good man with a good idea about separating our dueling selves, but of course, it does not work out the way he pl ...more

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May 07, 2020 Laysa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a favorite. I read it in Portuguese and while in middle school, and I remembered liking it very much. Now, older ~~and wiser (lol)~~ I read it again just to be more creeped out by it. At first, Dr. Jekyll seems to think of Mr. Hyde as something that can be contained and controlled... until things start to get out of hand and he is filled with terror and angst. I love it.

Lodging for the Night and the Suicide Club are great ones too, they have this creep ...more

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May 04, 2019 Carson Quarnberg rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I was hoping Jekyll and Hyde would be longer; that story really did surprise me, and I wanted to keep hearing about the character’s Frankensteinean shame. I liked all the other stories except for Thrawn Janet, which was written in such a strong British dialect as to be unintelligible. I’ll be honest, I read two pages and then skipped it.
Overall this collection of stories is spooky and incredibly well-written.

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Aug 18, 2020 Chad Schimke rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson 1886
A London lawyer investigates strange occurrences involving his old friend and the evil Edward Hyde.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Jul 03, 2019 Matthew Boak rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a classic that many people hear referenced but have never read, so I thought I'd try it out. It was only an 80-page story, so that was surprising to me. The plot was more relaxed and slow-paced than I thought it would be, though I think having been written in the nineteenth century might have had something to do with that. The characters are quite static and Mr. Hyde was far less villainous than I wanted him to be. I was looking for some pizazz here ...more

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Jan 17, 2020 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, own

One of my all time favorites.

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Mar 26, 2020 Sheila Majczan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Another classic read long ago...probably while I was in college.

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Jun 23, 2018 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, short-stories

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: 3.5/5 stars

The Bottle Imp: 3/5 stars

Markheim: 3/5 stars

The Body-Snatcher: 4/5 stars

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Nov 25, 2018 Lindsay rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Jekyll and Hyde - 4 stars!!

Everything else..... 1 star....

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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 onl ...more

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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“He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.” — 2 likes

“Günahkarların önde gideniysem eğer, acı çekenlerin de en başında geldiğimi bil. İçinde yaşadığımız dünyanın, bu denli asap bozucu acılar ve cefalarla dolu bir yer olduğunu hayal bile edemezdim ve senin, kaderimi bir parça da olsa değiştirmek için yapabileceğin tek bir şey var Utterson; o da sessizliğime saygı göstermek.” — 0 likes

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