I wasn't sure what to really expect with this one. Yes, it's a classic that "everyone knows about," but I didn't really know what it was about going into reading it. I knew there was a Doctor who turns himself into Mr. Hyde (pure evil). I didn't really know the specifics or anything about other char...
I was really impressed by the structure, the pace and the level of suspense of this novella. The images story provided were so vivid, provoking and convincing, that time could not do any harm to its timeless theme, that inspired so many theatrical adaptations. Stevenson really invested a lot of effo...
The story of Jekyll and Hyde has become such a staple of pop culture references and parodies that it pretty much ruined a lot of the tension in this book for me, having already known the ending. Having read this review, though, I kind of want try again someday.
Disappointment is the word that came to mind. I expected a lot more first-hand narrative and horror etc but I got mostly second-hand stories which opened the mystery - or as it's called: "the strange case".Surprised I was at how short it was; I read it in one sitting but overall I just had a lot mo...
I read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson today. (The edition I linked is one from this year & is a lovely, crisp little edition of the story.) I had never read it & I must say that I *absolutely* loved it (I'm a big fan of books that explore the duality of man's g...
Of course you know the story. Everyone knows the story. But the story that everyone knows doesn't take into account the psychological considerations. It is refreshing to read the real / whole story behind the simplified version that is so popular in cartoons and the like. And such a quick read t...
Atmospheric. Noir. Humane.I'd call Mr. Stevenson a master of suspense, if we didn't all know Mr. Hyde is Dr. Jeckyll's alter-ego, a projection of his baser urges. But I can tell this novel was crafted as an avant-garde thriller, which became a paradigm of human dualities . Not the turning-page type,...
A story based on the good and evil within each individual and how things can turn out if the evil side is let "out". The story was written in the typical style of the time (late 1800s) and while it was largely not told in a manner that I expected, from Jekyll or Hyde's point of view, it was still in...
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