The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

from Karlstar

I think by now most people are familiar with the lead story in this collection, the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Knowing the general plot of the story without having read it before spoiled it a bit for me, I found it neither suspenseful nor that well written enough to make it interesting. Th...

from bell7

In the title story, Mr. Utterson, a lawyer, is walking with his cousin when he hears a strange tale of a Mr. Hyde, who apparently has no conscience. Since he knows from his legal work that a respected man, Dr. Henry Jekyll, has written a strange clause into his will leaving all his property to th...

from AmyElizabeth

While not the best work of British literature I have read, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, was definitely entertaining. As is most literature of this time and nature, the novel is dually purposed: that of a haunting story, and that of an intellectual dive i...

from TheDivineOomba

These stories are classics. Mr Stevenson lived in a time when industrialization was just getting started - old world crafts were switching over to big machines, able to churn out more items in considerably less time. Its also the time of scientific curiosity. Scientists studied everything - with ...

from Mromano

Another of the 501 must reads. I enjoyed the novel, read in one sitting. The novel hints, but rarely tells, of the atrocities committed by the alter ego. For me, the most interesting part were the steps taken by Dr. Jekyll in trying to restore his good nature and thus repress the evil Hyde,who be...