Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Published in 1886, this Victorian novella explores the duality of human nature through the story of Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable London physician who creates a potion to release his darker impulses as the violent Mr. Edward Hyde. Narrated through the perspective of Jekyll's friend, Gabriel Utterson, the story unfolds as a mystery of disappearance and crime, gradually revealing the terrifying truth behind the dual identity. Stevenson’s prose is precise and atmospheric, blending the conventions of the gothic horror with a sharp critique of bourgeois respectability and social hypocrisy in late-nineteenth-century London.

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