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The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde reminds us that a person is not always quite what they seem. Behind a respectable face, something restless, suppressed, and darker may still be waiting to emerge. Stevenson turns this divided nature into a story filled with secrecy, tension, and unease. Perhaps that is why it still feels so powerful: the line between what we accept in ourselves and what we try to hide is never as secure as we would like to believe.
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- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Language
- English
- Edition type
- Public domain
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- Source
- Project Gutenberg
- Reference
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43
- Contributors
- Ajwen
- Publication status
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About the author
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer and a master of adventure fiction, blending suspense, moral unease, and effortless storytelling into works that still carry the thrill of discovery. In Treasure Island, he created Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver in a world of maps, mutiny, and sea wind, while Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde turned the divided self into one of literature’s most haunting images. His work includes novels, short stories, essays, travel writing, poems, and children’s verse, all marked by a restless fascination with movement and freedom. Though his health was fragile throughout his life, Stevenson was never simply a writer confined to a room. He travelled through Europe, America, and the Pacific before settling in Samoa — as if determined to shape his own life like an adventure story.
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Shadows, Secrets and the Self
Stories of secrets, hidden identities, guilt, obsession, transformation, and the darker sides of human nature. This collection opens books in which true tension lies not only in external danger, but in what remains concealed beneath the surface of the self.