The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Subjects: Science fiction, Horror tales, Self-experimentation in medicine -- Fiction, Psychological fiction, Multiple personality -- Fiction, Physicians -- Fiction, London (England) -- Fiction

Description: <p><i>The Strange Case of <abbr>Dr.</abbr> Jekyll and <abbr>Mr.</abbr> Hyde</i> is the classic novella of split personality. <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson">Stevenson</a> wrote it in just a few days while sick and bedridden, and famously burned the first draft after his wife suggested it should be written as an allegory and not as a story. He re-wrote it in three to six days, and after a few weeks of editing and revision he published what would become one of his most famous and best-selling works.</p> <p>The story follows a London lawyer as he investigates the relationship between a brilliant scientist and a misshapen misanthrope. As the link between the two becomes clearer, <i>Jekyll and Hyde</i> develops into an allegory on the nature of good and evil.</p>