The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Name: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
ISBN: 9781405855457

by Robert Louis Stevenson · first published 1875

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Mr. Gabriel Utterson is a serious, austere lawyer living a humdrum life in Victorian London. Yet there is a strange clause in his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll's will: should he disappear for more than 3 months, everything will be inherited by Hyde. But after Edward Hyde's darker nature is revealed one dark winters night, Mr. Utterson begins to investigate the connection between the two men, and finds the dark secret binding them closer then he could have ever thought imaginable. Adapted countless times in film, some times in video game form, and referenced countless times in popular culture, he

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nerdponx · Jan 8, 2018 · Recommends

…in the first synthesis, this involved the production of only a few centigrams of the compound. I absolutely love this writing. Reminds me of the great "scientific gothic" novels like Frankenstein and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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kstenerud · Oct 6, 2024 · Recommends

…Troopers (Heinlein) The Jungle Book (Kipling) Lost in the Barrens (Mowatt) The Republic (Plato) Rendezvous with Rama (Clarke) Ringworld (Niven) The Stainless Steel Rat (Harrison) The Hobbit (Tolkien) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Stevenson) The Odyssey (Homer) The Man who Would be King (Kipling) The Pearl (Steinbeck) Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) A Scanner Darkly (Dick) The…
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amiga386 · Nov 22, 2025 · Recommends

You should read the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as a follow up. The original inspiration for it was Stevenson hearing about respectable pillar of Edinburgh society, William Brodie, being caught as a burglar, stealing to repay his gambling debts. Your…
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GoodbyeMrChips · Feb 14, 2022 · Mentions

> "What if F Scott Fitzgerald came up to earth, said "It's pronounced Jatsby", then left?" Oh what you don't know! Robert Louis Stevensons 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', the pronunciation of Jekyll should be "Jyeec-ill" (rhymes with 'treacle') and not "Jek-ill". Stevenson was of course Scottish, and this is how the Scots name is pronounced. However, the latter pronunciation…
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wannabebarista · Dec 30, 2022 · Mentions

…Here's the list: * Fading Foundations by David Atkinson and Jeanne Peijnenburg * 1177 B.C. by Eric Cline * The Isles: A History by Norman Davies * How Carrots Won the Trojan War by Rebecca Rupp * The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson * Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans by Charles Kahn
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kd5bjo · Sep 12, 2018 · Mentions

Yes. I recently read “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and I’m sure that my enjoyment of it was significantly reduced by the central mystery’s resolution having inundated popular culture my entire life.
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