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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Start date: August 1, 2023

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Jul 01, 2013 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: literature, z-read-in-2013, historical-fiction

Continuing on my "remedial reading" tour of gothic literature I just finished Robert Louis Stevenson' s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. After having seen a plethora of movie versions of this tale, (My favorite involving Jerry Lewis) there was little that was surprising in this short novella.

Stevenson told an original tale in a masterful style. We all know the bare bones of the plot line and there was little that I found in this version that hadn't been dealt with adequately in all ...more

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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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00czhbq ...more

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Aug 02, 2014 Linda rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Fascinating and easy read. My first Stevenson.

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Mar 12, 2012 Dree rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-read, england-uk-ireland, classics, 2012-reads, blooms-western-canon

Yeah, I'm glad I read it.

Yeah, it was OK. Interesting, but not surprising, though I am sure it would have been shocking to readers immediately after its publication. That would have been cool.

And I think in college it would have been interesting to debate man's inner desires, Hyde's being younger due to being repressed for a lifetime, Jekyll's inability to resist Hyde, etc etc.

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