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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 12, 2017 Zara Arshad rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, owned-hardcopy, thriller-mystery

It's funny: over time I had collected 3 different copies of this book in hopes of reading it someday.
I finally got round to reading it. Almost every next reviewer remarked that it would have been better if we had not known the answer to the mystery of Jekyll and Hyde. I agree; knowing the end didn't let me enjoy the book as much as I could have.

The book is essentially a mystery where a lawyer named Mr. Utterson is faced with a potential plight of his good friend Dr. Jekyll. A shady character has ...more

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Sep 01, 2014 Katy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Wonderful book and using a narrator as almost a sleuth adds to the mystery of the story.

It was an interesting way to narrate the story I thought. We see little of the action in the story, but rather are told it through the eyes of Utterson. Almost like we are partaking of gossip in the city, until closer to the end we actually see Mr. Hyde ourselves.

Indeed a classic.

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