Name: Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Rating: 3.697297297297297 (925 reviews)
ISBN: 9780194791700

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rosemary Border

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Taylor raynoe

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Three Hours I'll Never Get Back

You know what? I actually really don't care. I'm not even disappointed, just annoyed that I wasted three hours reading this. And I made it to the second-to-last chapter and gave up 30% into said chapter. It's just so long winded and as someone who fails to visualise things, this was just a hard NO. It's going in my list of "classic books everyone says you should read, because they're going to change your life, but they just wasted hours of this ephemeral life of mine."

Anyways, I'd heard of the book, but I actually somehow never knew what it was about truly. I don't know how I dodged being spoiled one of the most influential books that bred The Incredible Hulk, Split, The Substance, Shrek (Fiona's curse), Captain America, and many more. However, I just couldn't get into the story because of the writing style of these long-winded sentences and paragraphs. It reminded me of reading Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." One of its adaptations, "The Haunting of Bly Manor" directed by the god of horror series, Mike Flanagan, is astronomically better than the book. James and Stevenson wrote like they were Michael Scott starting a sentence without knowing exactly where it was going.

“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.”

I'm just glad it's finally off my tbr. Also, I know I'm not the problem. I'm not incapable of reading classics, understanding them and/or enjoying them. I read "Apologia/Socrates's Defence" a few days ago and I had the time of my life. I was literally drowning in dopamine. I felt alive. I've read both Charlotte Brontë (

So, clearly I'm just not Henry James, Jane Austen, George Orwell and now Robert Louis Stevenson's target audience. Although, I grew up 

 the Treasure Planet movie and I still have the DVD. So, I'm gonna give that a try. 

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Three Hours I'll Never Get Back

You know what? I actually really don't care. I'm not even disappointed, just annoyed that I wasted three hours reading this. And I made it to the second-to-last chapter and gave up 30% into said chapter. It's just so long winded and as someone who fails to visualise things, this was just a hard NO. It's going in my list of "classic books everyone says you should read, because they're going to change your life, but they just wasted hours of this ephemeral life of mine."

Anyways, I'd heard of the book, but I actually somehow never knew what it was about truly. I don't know how I dodged being spoiled one of the most influential books that bred The Incredible Hulk, Split, The Substance, Shrek (Fiona's curse), Captain America, and many more. However, I just couldn't get into the story because of the writing style of these long-winded sentences and paragraphs. It reminded me of reading Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw." One of its adaptations, "The Haunting of Bly Manor" directed by the god of horror series, Mike Flanagan, is astronomically better than the book. James and Stevenson wrote like they were Michael Scott starting a sentence without knowing exactly where it was going.

“Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t know where it’s going. I just hope to find it somewhere along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.”

— Michael Scott


I'm just glad it's finally off my tbr. Also, I know I'm not the problem. I'm not incapable of reading classics, understanding them and/or enjoying them. I read "Apologia/Socrates's Defence" a few days ago and I had the time of my life. I was literally drowning in dopamine. I felt alive. I've read both Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre) and Anne Brontë (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) and I enjoyed them as well.

So, clearly I'm just not Henry James, Jane Austen, George Orwell and now Robert Louis Stevenson's target audience. Although, I grew up loving the Treasure Planet movie and I still have the DVD. So, I'm gonna give that a try. 

Part of the Legend Classics series Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and published in 1886. London lawyer John Gabriel Utterson decides to investigate the appearance of the brutish and evil Edward Hyde, which leads him back to his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll. The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe Grimm Fairy Tales

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Legend Classics)

While I’m sure I would have liked this more if the twist ending wasn’t spoiled by cultural osmosis, the twist also is pretty obvious pretty early on into the story and I’m sure even the ignorant Victorian would have caught on quickly. The rest of the narrative is interesting enough but the last 20 pages were a pretty boring recount of Dr. Jekkyls side of the story. The recount didn’t feel like it added many things that were new or many things that couldn’t just be presumed. Since the story is so short, the 20 pages really is a big chunk of it and so I really don’t think I can give it 4 stars. I do, however, find the deliberate decision to make the narrator a very boring man a fun decision. We need more boring people in stories. 

Rachel

I enjoyed every page of this bizzare story about a man and his two sides.

Engin Erdurmaz

O Médico e o Monstro

Mirra Mendes

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I was really intrigued by this book, because everyone knows Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and so it was fun to read the story behind this (almost overused) pair. It was a fun, quick read where every chapter added to the mystery. I would've loved for the ending to resolve a little more of the other characters, but I need to like open endings a little more.

Also, there is this one sentence that is just hilarious: 

"'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'I shall be Mr Seek.'" 

You can't tell me he named him Mr Hyde just because he wanted to use that pun lol.

Valentina

I was really intrigued by this book, because everyone knows Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and so it was fun to read the story behind this (almost overused) pair. It was a fun, quick read where every chapter added to the mystery. I would've loved for the ending to resolve a little more of the other characters, but I need to like open endings a little more.

Also, there is this one sentence that is just hilarious: 
"'If he be Mr Hyde,' he had thought, 'I shall be Mr Seek.'" 
You can't tell me he named him Mr Hyde just because he wanted to use that pun lol.

Part of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set.' All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil' Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable DrJekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

What a novel. Read it in prepartion for school and it's very intersting; quite similar in idea to the picture of dorian grey. The dual personality which comes up in this book is way ahead of it's time and I like the scientific theme of gravehunters in this. Did not expect Jekyll and Hyde to be the same man. Great classic, and great pacing with an even greater decision of the novel size.

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Robert Mighall

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Sarah Sammis

I need to open this with "If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek" is positively the single funniest line ever written in literature.

Stevenson has an unmatch knack for constructing stories that are both straightforward and multilayered. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in particular, seems to speak to many of Western society's persevering anxieties: good vs evil, the hypocrisy of the seemingly virtuous, the internal turmoil of nurture vs nature, the fear of one's own nature - the list goes on. And every time, there is a new facet to be discovered. It is why, in my opinion, it still reads as modern as if it was written this year. An absolutely outstanding little book. 

I need to open this with "If he be Mr Hyde, I shall be Mr Seek" is positively the single funniest line ever written in literature.

Stevenson has an unmatch knack for constructing stories that are both straightforward and multilayered. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in particular, seems to speak to many of Western society's persevering anxieties: good vs evil, the hypocrisy of the seemingly virtuous, the internal turmoil of nurture vs nature, the fear of one's own nature - the list goes on. And every time, there is a new facet to be discovered. It is why, in my opinion, it still reads as modern as if it was written this year. An absolutely outstanding little book. 

Class read. Cool premise, and short but suffers from the romantic era writing style. Nonetheless definitely a cultural classic and a good read to get around to

Derek Graf

The line, ""If he be Mr Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr Seek."", is probably the best line I have ever read.

might fuck around and blame everything that inconveniences me on mr. hyde too

An 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Romy

Ann Gabrielle

“Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human.”

this is so female-coded lol

Different from what I expected it to be but reading such a spoken classic was fun even though I didn't get the opportunity to study it for my exams.

Andrew John Kinney

I am amazed by RLS' ability, 140 years after he wrote most of his books, to hold our attention and to entertain. Jekyll & Hyde is a bit more preachy than most of his work, but it still grabs the reader, despite the fact that everyone knows the story. Somehow I had avoided reading it until now. I like Kidnapped and his travelogues better, but it's still a great parable.

Briar's Reviews

Yet another classic off my shelf....

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is very famous in the lore of classic novels, so I figured I would finally pick it up. This book was yet another case of "Why couldn't I read this with an English teacher?" I wanted to hear every little bit of this story be picked apart and explained to me, much like my high school English classes. Especially since this book is written in prose from the time it was published. 

It was definitely interesting, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked. I assume that's because I've seen many of Hollywood's versions of this story. So many, that it kind of ruined the surprise!

This book does have some cool themes and plot lines - losing control, science experiments - all of the really fun topics (for those newbies to the classic scene, think The Hulk but...well, older).

There is one line in this book that was absolutely AMAZING. "If he shall be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek!" Seriously, that level of humour is truly epic. This book gets a star for just THAT comment. That level of play on words is EPIC.

My biggest con for this book was how it's written. Yes, it's old and they had a different writing style back then. But, for me, it was a real hassle sticking to the book. I kept pulling myself away only to jump back in to finish it. Hence, why I need an English major to hold my hand as I read this book.

Two out of five stars.

Know Anyone Like This in Your Life? Politicians? Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called ""split personality"", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, there are two personalities within Dr. Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil. About the Author: Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was just as great as the first time I read it but the other stories were pretty disappointing. I ended up not reading the last few ones.

Colleen

4 Stars

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde was a departure from Stevenson's other works but just as influential. This is a story that has seeped into many forms of media and been retold or borrowed from countless times. Stories this influential are always worth a read especially when they are this short. 

And it is not just the length that makes Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde an quick read. The writing is clear and mostly fast-paced. The ideas behind it, the cautionary tale about the good and evil inside all of us, are timeless. 

This must have been mind-blowing for those original readers who were truly surprised by the ending. These days, the twist is so well known, I doubt it would be a surprise ending for anyone. Even many of modern synopses blatantly state it. But I don't think that detracted from the story's merit. 

The only big con was that the denouement veered towards info dumping and deus ex machina. It lost the momentum of the rest of the story which made it a tad anticlimactic. This is still a must read classic though particularly if you wish to gain a better understanding of where certain ideas in modern media came from. 


RATING FACTORS:
Ease of Reading: 4 Stars
Writing Style: 5 Stars
Characters and Character Development: 4 Stars
Plot Structure and Development: 3 Stars
Level of Captivation: 4 Stars
Originality: 5 Stars

Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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