About this title: In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of murder, and the good doctor, tormented by the struggle between good and evil that he embodies, is forced into an act of violence by his tortured conscience. Narrated by several onlookers, as well as by Jekyll himself, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, one of the ...
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Edition: Great Illustrated Classics
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Baronet Books
Date Published: 1990
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice hard cover, lightly read, slight shelf wear to cover, light aging to pages, stk #3000m9. 238 p. Includes illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No Date, circa 1940's. Red cloth with title boxed in black. Spine cloth loose at front hinge. Corners bumped, rubbed, boards soiled. Pages tanning. 234 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Books, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Light scuffing to front board & a touch of wear at ends of spine. Pages brown otherwise excellent. (appears to be war time paper) SYNOPSIS: 247 pages. No date stated. The world's popular classics art-type edition with blue & tan decorative boards & dark blue spine with gold lettering & decoration. read more
Description: Fine. 0486266885 Excellent condition Soft cover book, clean pages, No creases to spine, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Perfection Form Co
Date Published: 1979
Description: GOOD. THIS APPEARS TO BE A MMPB IN A HB COVER. IT IS STAMPED TEXTBOOK INSIDE. CLEAN AND SOLID. SLIGHT SPINE TILT. NUMBER 28 ON FOOT. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Date Published: 1961
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Ex-Library Cover and pages clean. some edge/corner wear. binding secure. dust jacket clean, sticker on front. lots of library insignia inside and out. read more
"A strange case of bipolar, indeed. I am familiar with the story line since this was adapted into movie, however, the story was altogether a different one.
This book provided us with realization that good and evil resides in everyone. Though, such concept was treated differently, and not just a case of split personality or even schizoprenia. Here, Dr. Jekyl knows within himself his dark side, but is too scared to ruin his reputation, until the existence of Mr. Hyde.
Mr. Hyde is the dark side of Dr. Jekyl, violent, temperamental, evil at some ways and has a totally different physical appearance. He can get away with everything, since he will transform himself into Dr. Jekyl anytime.
Dr. Jekyl understand the risk he has to undertake with such case. However, it gives him the freedom.
Eventually this killed him. The effect of his actions were too hard to handle, and he can no longer control his "evil" side.
This shows us that too much evil kills the good side of us. It overtakes us, controls us, until it kills anything good that's left within us. However, our attempt to cage the bad side of our personality eventually creates another persona of ourselves, which is sometimes more dangerous than our real self.
This book exposed the human mind, and its unknown case of split personality. A book, I would greatly recommend."
"Confession - I joined a new book club. I felt like I was cheating on my California book club. I promise I was thinking about them while we discussed the duality of man - the carnal and the supernal. This concept is one those universal battles that all people face- though many do not acknowledge the battle between being their best self and indulging in life's pleasures. Dr. Jekyll is a good man with a good idea about separating our dueling selves, but of course, it does not work out the way he planned and his good British society is altered forever.
I finished this book in audio form walking along the tree lined streets of residential Provo. There was a chill in the air and gorgeous fall leaves crunched under my feet. As the letters were read in the story, I felt another chill - another pull that had nothing to do with the cool November air. It was Henry Jekyll admitting defeat - that his carnal self, which took form in Mr. Hyde, was too strong and would ultimately be the end of the more noble Dr. Jekyll. It made me sad. Giving in felt too real.
I didn't explain this to my new book club. They wouldn't understand. Books alter everything...."
"Dr. Jekyll is a wealthy, honorable, and distinguished man living in Victorian London in 1886. He is obsessed with the idea that different entities or personalities could occupy one mans body. He invents a potion which transforms him into the unattractive and horrific looking Edward Hyde. This disguise allows him to commit any crime he wants. He will not feel the shame or remorse that Dr. Jekyll would feel. This is a story of good vs. evil and the names of Dr. Jekll and Mr. Hyde have become part of our common language and expression.
This excellent and famous novel made me ponder over the idea that man has a "good" side and "evil" side. I find it fascinating that the description of the physical appearance of the two men were vastly different. I can relate to this because I know many people who act one way with me and different in another situation, just like Dr. Jekyll.
I found that I had to read this book very carefully because there was so much symbolism and different interpretations of the book. It was unlike any other book I have ever read. Parts of it were scary, violent, and even upsetting. I now completely understand the metaphor "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". This expresses the duel nature of all humans and that we are capable of great goodness and unbelievable evil."
"Another classic that I have never read. I was surprised at how short this book is. Not really a "novel," more like a long short story. The beauty of this story is that we get the events from the perspective of a lawyer (Mr. Utterson), even though it's in third person. Then, at the end, we get the whole story from the perspective of Dr. Jekyll, himself. Oddly, all of the representations that I have ever seen of this story (even the Bugs Bunny parody) really don't quite do it justice. Hyde wasn't necessarily an ugly monster, as most people have depicted him. He was, rather, the embodiment of the evil that lives within each of us. I think, in some ways, this is a moral tale. Good vs. evil, and how, if we give it a foot in the door, evil will take over.
Incidentally, I did not like the afteward by Jerome Charyn in the Bantam Classic edition. I find it very pretentious when people presume to tell me what the author really meant. Reminds me of school lit classes, which I also hated. Someday, I would like to write a novel that becomes famous and sit in on a lit class, so I can tell the teacher how wrong he/she is about what I was writing about. Pft."
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