Stage adaptations began in Boston and London within a year of its publication and it has gone on to inspire scores of major film and stage performances. Today Stevensons novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was an immediate success and is one of Stevenson's best-selling works. Hyde dramatically brings to life a case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite both sides of me were in. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. Robert Louis Stevensons masterpiece of the duality of good and evil in mans nature sprang from the darkest recesses of his own unconsciousduring a nightmare from which his wife awakened him, alerted by his screams. - A moment before I had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved the cloth laying for me in the dining-room at home and now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Strange Case of Dr.
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