good and bad, a great story

Book review:

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Scottish novelist

141 pages

Originally published in 1886 as Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this iconic novella was an immediate hit and sold 250,000 copies in the United States.

(Later publishers added “The” and punctuation to the title in a gratuitous fit of grammatical purity).

It’s a masterly drama and a quaint exploration of the Manichean theme of good and evil in man. In my most recent re-reading, Jekyll seems to be a much less respectable character than in my previous experience with this classic: he is weak, licentious and mostly unrepentant.

His alter ego, Hyde, is still a bad boy.

The narrator’s reflections on human nature are thoughtful and instructive.

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