Fiction · 1886
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer becomes uneasy about the will of his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, which leaves everything to a repellent stranger named Edward Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson’s short novel, published in January 1886, unfolds as a mystery and ends with two confessions.
The book was an immediate success and gave the language a phrase for the divided self. Its final chapter, “Henry Jekyll’s Full Statement of the Case”, is one of the most concentrated pieces of writing in Victorian fiction.
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1850–1894 · Victorian
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, trained in law, and turned to writing travel essays and stories. Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886) made him famous. In poor health all his life, he travelled in search of a climate he could bear and settled in 1890 in Samoa, where he died at forty-four.
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