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 Title page of the first London edition (1886) | |
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| Original title | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Longmans, Green & Co. |
Publication date | 5 January 1886 |
| Pages | 141 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0-553-21277-8 |
| Text | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at Wikisource |
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde[1] is an 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is one of the most famous pieces of English literature, and is considered to be a defining book of the gothic horror genre. The novella has also had a sizeable impact on popular culture, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" being used in vernacular to refer to people with an outwardly good but sometimes shockingly evil nature.[2]
- ^ Stevenson titled the book without "The" in the beginning for reasons unknown, but it has been supposed to increase the "strangeness" of the case (Richard Dury (2005)). Later publishers added "The" to make it grammatically correct, but it was not the author's original intention. The story is often known today simply as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde or even Jekyll and Hyde.
- ^ "Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". British Library. Retrieved 15 June 2023.