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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Oct 16, 2021 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-read, guardian-1000-read, read-short-story

Like many stories that have been re-told, re-imagined, re-interpreted for generations, the original story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not what one might expect. Hyde is small, not some raging Hulk-like monster but more like the personification of evil or the complete absence of good. The story itself is somewhat disjointed and a bit wordy at times, with plenty of Victorian-era histrionics, but it finds redemption and meaning in the final chapter, musing about the duality of man and - like Wild ...more

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Oct 18, 2020 Carrie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: gothic, horror, classics, good-vs-evil, own

The nature of mankind
Good vs. Evil

We all have both sides existing within us, to say other wise would be false.

Fantastic story, one to ponder over and reflect about ones self.

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Sep 06, 2015 Alex rated it liked it

I read this novella because it was one of the books Nabokov found worthy to lecture on. The plot is meticulous and the narrative cleverly set up. Much less graphic violence than I expected from my experience of films and plays based on the book (and the endless imitations). What interested Nabokov was the interplay of good and evil in his character, and by extension all humans. Stevenson treats it much more mechanically or chemically than I would have supposed, and Nabokov spends much time worki ...more

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Nov 22, 2016 Richard Subber rated it it was amazing

A masterly drama and a quaint exploration of the Manichean theme of good and evil in man. In my most recent reading, Jekyll is a much less respectable character than in my previous reading: he is weak, licentious and mostly unrepentant.

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Feb 24, 2014 Sandy rated it really liked it

Was pleasantly surprised at how good this book was. I honestly did not know the story going into the book and found it very gripping. Liked it much more than either Dracula or Frankenstein.

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Mar 14, 2015 Heather L rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, 2015

As with many of the classics that have become a part of mainstream culture, this was good but not quite what I was expecting.

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Jan 28, 2008 Ketutar Jensen rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1000-soleils

Re-read this for The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter.

Now, everyone knows this story. A doctor experiments with himself and enjoys the bad inclination hiding in the good inclination from the consequences, but this won't do - he finds himself trapped in the bad inclination and forced to take the consequences.

It is rather good. ...more

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