"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First U.S. edition
In this classic nineteenth-century thriller, the respectable and mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes a loathsome character, the dark and evil Mr. Hyde. The author, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer whose most famous works are “Treasure Island” (1883), “Kidnapped” (1886), and “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886). Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.
The “Jekyll and Hyde” story is commonly associated with the rare mental condition called “split personality,” often referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, two personalities are within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil. The novel's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. [Source: Wikipedia]
"Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First U.S. edition
In this classic nineteenth-century thriller, the respectable and mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes a loathsome character, the dark and evil Mr. Hyde. The author, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer whose most famous works are “Treasure Island” (1883), “Kidnapped” (1886), and “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886). Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world.
The “Jekyll and Hyde” story is commonly associated with the rare mental condition called “split personality,” often referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, two personalities are within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil. The novel's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. [Source: Wikipedia]