Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Reviews

Stevenson tells us a lot about Victorian society in this book. The upper and middle classes were often superficial and hypocritical with regard to their morality. They thought it was acceptable behaviour to appear respectable on the surface, while at the same time dabbling in various forms of immoral behaviour. In the book, much of the clandestine ...

The well told tale of the scrupulous, if tragically ill-fated, Dr. Jekyll has become one of the world’s most famous parables. A true case of curiosity killing the cat if ever there was one, this novella hit the stands in the 19th century with a clatter. Before your screen adaptations, before the plays, the operas, before the television ...

The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde was first published in 1886, and is surprisingly short for such an acclaimed book - it has only 88 pages! I read it in school as part of my English Literature coursework and I was expecting it to be pretty good - after all, there have been so many TV programmes, spin offs and dramatisations of it! ...

The trouble with Jekyll and Hyde is that everyone knows about it - through endless repeats, revisions, parodies and the like it has become part of our consciousness and the book that started it all off has suffered greatly for this. When I first read "The strange case...." I could not help but wonder what it would have been like to ...

WARNING: Contains plot spoilers! Published in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (of Treasure Island fame!) is a horror, mystery and parable all rolled into one. The story unfolds through the various narratives of a Mr Enfield, a mr Utterson, a Dr Lanyon and dr Jekyll's butler - Poole. ...

this book is one which i studied at gcse, and it struck a chord then. it follows the sinister path of dr henry jeckyll, whose, bombastic scientific experiments, lead him to discover a formula which mutates him into his dark side, which is expressed in the form of a Mr. Hide. Mr. Hide represents jeckyll's evil nature, that slight character flaw ...

Jekyll and Hyde was written by Robert Louise Stephenson and, soon, after its conception, it became a stage show. It is the story of a man, Dr Jekyll who discovers his darker self, Mr Hyde, after taking potions. It is not a very thick book but has had quite an impact on history. At the time of the 'Jack the ...