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The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson
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bthegood
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#ThatsClassic @Annie1215

Loved this story! Not on my list of books to finish during #AwesomeAugust @Andrew65 but once I started it I couldn't put it down. Having watched a couple of movie versions I didn't realize it was a short story😊

Annie1215 I was also so surprised by how short it was! 3y
bthegood @Annie1215 👍😊 3y
Andrew65 Great 👏👏👏 3y
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La_Cori
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"..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."

(?: Jekyll and Hyde by TGY on DeviantArt)

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La_Cori
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Next up on #serialreader

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Ruthiella
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“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”

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Eggs Apropos to the prompt — spot-on! 4y
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Mitch
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Fanny Vandergrift Stevenson by John Moffat ( Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Fanny was Robert Louis Stevenson‘s wife. 15 years his junior, she nursed him during bouts of ill health and was his literary editor and mentor. It was thanks to her that he returned to an abandoned manuscript and renamed it The Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.

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MaleficentBookDragon
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The #Kindle version is $1 with the #audible version (read by Richard Armitage) for only $1.99 more.

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SkeletonKey
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Finished another classic!

There were a lot of moments in this book where I could see this being an odd metaphor for being transgender. Taking a potion to transform, being shunned by society. But it‘s probably because I‘m always thinking about that subject and really, I‘m a little too sleepy to make a good case for it.

#serialreader #classics #lgbtq

CoffeeNBooks I loved this book! 7y
SkeletonKey @CoffeeNBooks - It was good! 7y
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Libby1
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This classic is so familiar that it‘s easy to forget how shocking the plot once was for many readers.

How do we think about human beings? Are we good, evil, a confusing mixture of both? What would happen if we could give free reign to an evil side without suffering consequences?

My favourite line: “If he is Mr. Hyde then I shall be Mr. Seek.” 😃

Other than an abrupt ending I enjoyed this. Thanks again, @SerialReader !
(Photo from Wikipedia)

RealBooks4ever Cool pic! 💜 7y
Libby1 @RealBooks4ever - I KNOW! It‘s a photo of an actor who played both parts, and according to Wikipedia, it was made using a double exposure technique. 7y
JazzFeathers Read it years ago and loved it (besides, l love Stevenson 😆) Was surprised at how different it was from what l expected 7y
Libby1 @JazzFeathers - I agree. It was different from what I expected, too, but that wasn‘t a problem. 7y
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TheBrockUEnglishMajor
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Always a great read for students of psychoanalysis and gothic fiction.

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I-read-and-eat
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Going to dive into this classic tonight. I've never read it before but it sounds like it's right up my alley.

And I made some mini apple crumble tarts to eat when taking reading breaks. (Much too crumbly to eat while reading!😉)

DGRachel I read it in my gothic lit class in college. Enjoy! 7y
Em_loves 'Man is not truly one, but truly two' Enjoy! 7y
I-read-and-eat @DGRachel @Em_loves I loved it! I usually don't go for 'the classics' but this book was a winner! 7y
Em_loves Fab! Glad that you liked it! I have taught it to Year 11 for the last fews years! X 7y
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