Scholastic Classics: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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Brand: Scholastic
Description: What is the mystery that binds respectable Dr Henry Jekyll and despicable lowlife Edward Hyde together?. Scholastic Classics: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 103583
ISBN: 9781407164267
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Author: M. Dowden
Rating: 5
Review: Robert Louis Stevenson had always wanted to write a tale of the good and evil struggle in man, and eventually he was able to with this novella, which was first published in 1886. It would seem that the author eventually managed to come up with this tale due to a dream that he apparently had, and which his wife was to tell his biographer about. From thereon then history was made, as this soon proved a bestseller and of course Jekyll and Hyde has become a part of the language, with for instance a Jekyll and Hyde personality. I should think that even if you have never read this before you will know the basic story as it has become so well known, but imagine the first readers of this, starting what would seem a mystery tale, and then by the end exploding into something much more intriguing and frightening. A celebrity in his lifetime and admired by many great writers of his age, including the likes of Henry James, so after his death his status started to wane, especially as authors such as Virginia Woolf denigrated his work, but even so some of his books always remained popular, this being one of them. As we read this, we do not really find out much about Dr Jekyll and his apparent friend, the odious Mr Hyde, who as we read on is wanted for murder. An odious man, it is only in the closing part of this novella that we actually read of his connection with Dr Jekyll as the full truth emerges for his friend and lawyer, Utterson. Thus we have a tale that has intrigued many and also been quite influential. The dual nature of the characters of the title can open up to all sorts of interpretations, even including Scottish Nationalism, but usually people concern themselves with the psychological aspect here, of someone fighting their baser traits, and including mental illness. At the time laudanum was in popular usage and this can also thus be seen as a tale of drug addiction and its consequences. Always a joy to read this is one of those tales, despite being a novella and thus short, that you always remember. I cannot remember how old I was when I first read this, but it has always remained something to come back to time and again, and if you have never read this before then you really are in for a treat. Rather like Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’, this is a story that just holds you spellbound and makes you really appreciate the sheer artistry and inventiveness of some authors.
Author: simon lowe
Rating: 2
Review: It’s a poorly printed classic. Buy elsewhere
