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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Old School Classic Group Read, September 2014
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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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Jan 11, 2010 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, gothic-romance, read-2010, book-and-movie

Tim Pigott-Smith reads Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic tale of the monstrous Mr Hyde, who stalks the streets of London, filling the bourgeois society with terror.

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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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