The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cautionary
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: London, England
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy, Gothic fiction, Horror literature
- Subjects: Suicide, Murder or homicide, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, Doctors, England or English people, Good and evil, Drugs, London, Experiments, Mad scientists, Dopplegangers
- Locales: London, England
The Plot
Robert Louis Stevenson said that the plot of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (first published without “The” as the first word in the title) first came to him in a nightmare and that, after waking up, he wrote the first draft in three days. Stevenson introduces the mystery of the evil Mr. Edward Hyde—the central puzzle of the story—early in the novel, but he does not provide a solution to the mystery until the very end. The reader’s first encounter with Hyde is at second hand, in a story told to Gabriel John Utterson, a lawyer friend of Dr....
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