Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)
    Ebook37 pages40 minutes

    Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)

    By Kan Long

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    ABOUT THE BOOK

    Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a lesson in suspense. Stevenson creates one singular point of mystery that successfully sustains reader intrigue and anxiety across nine tightly written chapters.

    Speaking as a writer: bravo, RLS, bravo.

    The simplicity of the central question - excuse me, Mr. Hyde, who exactly are you? - is highly effective. The entirety of Stevenson’s narrative stems from this predicament. The suspense comes from an absence of knowledge. We, the reader, know nothing. Sure, Enfield tells a fairly bone-chilling story about a monster who stomps on a little girl at 3:00 am, but Hyde remains an enigma. Stevenson plays on natural human curiosity by piquing interest with a perturbing opening tale, then rests, and uses Utterson’s ignorance as a buffer to withhold information.

    Seriously, who is Hyde?

    MEET THE AUTHOR

    Pennies, Blacktop, and Words

    EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK

    Written in 1885, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde falls under the category of the Late Victorian era. Attributes of the era included a dissatisfaction with religious faith and the aesthetic feature of interior moods and thoughts projected outward onto the world. Jekyll and Hyde also embodies literary themes associated with the 1890s. Chief among these is the allegory present in the novella which functions as both a critique and a scathing exposé of the hypocritical self-righteousness and repressive moral severity of British society at the turn of the 19th century.

    Upon its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was well received in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Though marketed as a “shilling shocker,” Jekyll and Hyde received favorable reviews from both The Times (bookstores refused to stock the novella until a review was published in the newspaper) and Stevenson’s contemporaries. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote that “the superficial touches of character are admirable” and “worthy of Shakespeare.” Jack London shared a similar admiration stating, “as a storyteller there isn’t his [Stevenson’s] equal.”

    Stevenson’s chilling novella of dual identities has secured a lasting place in the canon of Western culture. Over one hundred film, television, and theater adaptions of Jekyll and Hyde exist today. The grotesque nature of Edward Hyde and the genteel fallibility of Henry Jekyll unflinchingly depicts a universal psychological struggle between interior desire and external morality that continues to resonate with readers around the world.

    Buy a copy to keep reading!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHyperink
    Release dateFeb 24, 2012
    ISBN9781614640530
    Unavailable
    Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)

    Related to Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)

    Related ebooks

    Book Notes For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Belated Recognition

      Mar 1, 2021

      Belated Recognition
      6 min read

    • Article

      Detecting The Dead

      Jan 20, 2022

      Detecting The Dead
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hellbent and Hydebound

      Oct 19, 2022

      Where Stevenson’s contemporaries explored specific tensions within the Victorian psyche, 'Jekyll and Hyde' pinned the split personality of the era to the page. The post Hellbent and Hydebound appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Hyde

      Jan 27, 2021

      RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 389 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Craig Russell Publisher Constable & Robinson Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde was inspired by a fever dream. What if it wasn’t? What if, instead, the au

      1 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Aug 7, 2019

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Biography & memoir

      Jun 29, 2022

      Biography & memoir
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Inner Workings Of Gertrude Jekyll

      Aug 4, 2021

      GERTRUDE JEKYLL is one of those enduring arbiters of taste whose influence extends far beyond her own lifetime. It is natural that modern garden historians should wish to mine her considerable paper archive, especially now that we live in a digital a

      5 min read

    • Article

      The Ambitious Anachronism of ‘The Fraud’

      Sep 14, 2023

      We are to understand that a story with such disclosures could not be published in its time, but we might also feel it could not have been written then. The post The Ambitious Anachronism of ‘The Fraud’ appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Mar 23, 2023

      The unofficial Christmas truce of 1914 certainly did occur [Mythconceptions #263, FT426:19]. In her book 1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War, Lyn Macdonald, the noted historian of WW1, quotes Lieut Johannes Niemann of the 133rd Royal Saxon

      11 min read

    • Article

      The real Mr Darcy

      Nov 2, 2022

      The real Mr Darcy
      8 min read

    • Article

      THE Reading room

      Nov 27, 2019

      THE Reading room
      7 min read

    • Article

      Hankering After Ghosts

      Dec 1, 2022

      It’s been 10 years since the publication of my book A Natural History of Ghosts (see FT296:42-45). I probably should have written more in it about the writer Charles Dickens. The truth is I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Dickens. I rea

      8 min read

    • Article

      Miscellaneous

      Jun 29, 2022

      Miscellaneous
      8 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Ybarra, Berman, Lepore, Epstein, and More

      May 28, 2019

      Fresh off the presses this week, a Gladwellian argument for why generalists kick butt, and historian Jill Lepore's book-length essay on American nationalism. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Ybarra, Berman, Lepore, Epstein, and More appear

      5 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Dreyer, Lapidos, Winters, and More

      Jan 22, 2019

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Benjamin Dreyer, Juliet Lapidos, Ben Winters and more—that are publishing this week. Want to learn more about upcoming titles? Then go read our most recent book preview. Want to h

      5 min read

    • Article

      A New Golden Age

      Oct 5, 2022

      A New Golden Age
      8 min read

    • Article

      The Old Un's Notes

      Feb 8, 2023

      The Old Un's Notes
      4 min read

    • Article

      A Twist On Charles Dickens: He Was A Public Health Pioneer Too

      Jul 5, 2018

      A new museum exhibit in London reveals a hidden side of the literary great. It turns out he was prolific not just as a novelist, but also as a promoter of public health and medical discoveries.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jul 26, 2022

      Letters
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Murder The Strange Case Of Walter Sickert And Jack The Ripper

      May 19, 2022

      Whitechapel, London, the autumn of 1888. Through the midnight streets stalks a dark figure, wrapped in a long, checkered coat. As the secretive figure makes his way along Copenhagen Street, he attracts the attention of a group of young girls. Talk of

      15 min read

    • Article

      International Books

      Feb 10, 2020

      How to make a novel seem... novel? Ben Lerner walks a fine line between erudite and esoteric, but what this coming-of-age story lacks in plot and momentum it makes up for in characterisation, imaginative detail and profundity. (I now want to seek out

      4 min read

    Reviews for Quicklet on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (CliffNotes-like Summary)

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words