Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Stage 3, with CD

by Robert Louis Stevenson

The novel is about a London lawyer who attempts to explain strange relationship between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. Imagine a scientist who has made an elixir and tests this elixir on himself without thinking. He experiences an amazing transformation as a result. A disturbing creature has been created. This is a story of the lawyer, Mr. Utterson, who tries to solve this mystery and the relationship between it and his friend, Dr. Jekyll. Will he be able to solve the mystery?

56 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.

Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.