The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Full edition
Londn, 19th century.
In this unmissable classic, author Stevenson analyzes the figure of the double. Torn between the good and the evil entity, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde is a short, quick-to-read and fluent gothic tale.
Born from a dream, the story was first published in 1886
- Plot The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Cervantes, Dumas, Conan Doyle: writers whose names, perhaps, may not be remembered, or may sound dusty and even obnoxious, especially because of disappointing school memories.
But no one ignores Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, D'Artagnan and Sherlock Holmes, paper characters who have had the fate of being more alive and long-lived than their creators. A similar fate also for Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, who - as legend has it - are said to have been rescued from a nightmare and put on a page by Stevenson in 1886, after a quick and frenzied writing labor. What the tale is universally known about: the "double", the struggle between Good and Evil, a disconcerting metamorphosis, Victorian London and its most disturbing secrets, the terrible dangers that man faces every time he challenges unknown, aiming, perhaps, to transcend the Human condicio. We are perhaps faced with an old book for new readers: the "strange case", in fact, starts from a door, from a door to which one does not willingly pay attention; yet, Jekyll and Hyde wait disturbing a little further ... And, not by chance, who is already reading is similarly on a threshold: just the time to change the page and you are beyond, inside the labyrinths and abysses of a masterpiece without space and time
- Themes: plot centered on splitting the personality
Robert Louis Stevenson is an English writer best known for being the author of "Treasure Island" (1883) and "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde".
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