Podivný případ doktora Jekylla a pana Hyda/Markheim/Kumpáni

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins" (G. K. Chesterton).

Genres: Horror, Classics, Fantasy, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fiction

142 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1886

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.

Reviews

[Makaelin Rae]

thought daughter pt 1
this was a touch out of my comfort zone but a pleasant surprise! it was creepy with a unique humor and ill read more classic horror (?) in the future. no rating bc idek rn but i liked it

[Stefanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always forget how different Jekyll and Hyde actually is from my memory of it; much more suspense and much less horror. All that existential Victorian dread.

The other two stories didn't work for me, Markheim was a weird kind of religious parable and the Merry Men was a tale about wreckers which I keep running into and doesn't get any more exciting.

[Tess · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tuto knihu jsem si připsala na seznam především kvůli samotnému Podivnému případu, dala jsem však šanci všem třem povídkám. Bohužel mě nijak zvlášť neoslovila ani jedna.
Je nepravděpodobné, že by to zavinilo stáří knihy, sama o sobě se nečetla špatně. Styl psaní má krásný, květnatý, ale srozumitelný, atmosféru tudíž navozovala dokonale. Děj také plynul v souladu s délkou knihy, ani příliš rychle, ani příliš pomalu.
Spíše se mi netrefila do vkusu. Žádná z povídek dle mého názoru plně nerozvinula svůj potenciál (a že ho všechny tři měly veliký), konec Markheima i Kumpánů mě navíc zanechal poměrně zmatenou, jako by mi stále něco unikalo. V žádném případě to nepřipisuji za vinu Stevensonovi; po příběhu jsem sáhla po shlédnutí Wildhornova muzikálu Jekyll & Hyde, takže jsem očividně očekávala něco trochu jiného, jak už po stránce obsahové, tak rozsahové.
Tři hvězdy. Neurazila, nenadchla.

[#Královna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Vubec netusim jestli jsem to pochopila spravne, ale podelim se tu o SVUJ pocit z toho pribehu.

V rozborech (teda v tom jednom co jsem cetla haha) se pise o rozdvojeni osobnosti a boje dobré stranky s tou spatnou. S tim souhlasim. Ale pro me tady byl asi ten hlavni bod vznik zavislosti.

Podle me jsme pozorovali pribeh jak se clovek postupne stava zavislým na omamnych latkach a jaký vliv to ma na jeho zivot a lidi kolem nej.

Jak se Jekyll snazil tolik nefetovat, ale vzdy se k tomu nejak vratil.
Jak ho to znicilo.
Co delal, aby dostal dalsi davku.
Jak se z neho stal jiný clovek.
Jak byl v panice, kdyz zjistil, ze si dalsi davku uz mozna nevyrobi.

Krasná prace.

Markheim a Lupič mrtvol byly mensi povidky o spatnem svedomi. Moc jsem se na to nemohla soustredit. Popisy situaci krasny ale na moji pozornost az moc dlouhy a nezajimavy. 🤣

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is, of course, a classic in the horror genre. I first read it, I think, when I was 18 but hadn't reread it until now, and it still holds up well. This book also includes "Markheim," which is another story that explores the dual nature of humans; a man enters a shop, robs and kills the owner, and encounters something he didn't expect. The final story is "The Merry Men," about a young man who visits his uncle and cousin on an island off the coast of Scotland, and discovers that the uncle is harboring a dark secret. I got bogged down several times in this story because the uncle's dialogue was written in Scottish eye dialect and I found some of what he said hard to understand.

[Veiko Mäekivi · Rating 1 out of 5]

Borrowed this book because I had heard names Jekyll and Hyde before but didn't know anything about those persons. So, first I was surprised that all the action took place so long time ago. And second, that there was so little action :D But that's probably characteristic of books of that era.
Another two stories in this book ("Markheim" and "The Merry Men") were shorter but much more difficult to read, especially the last one because of dialogue was in some kind of dialect which made reading it very difficult for a person like me, for whom English is not my native language.
Anyway, I'm happy I finally finished this book but I enjoyed it less than I expected.

[Lucka.01 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tak od této knihy jsem čekala víc. Četla jsem ji, protože mi ji kamarídka doporučila, že to má vážně skvělý příběh. Ano, ale myslela jsem, že to bude o něčem jiném. Více akčnější. Ale jsem ráda, že jsem si to přečetla i proto, že to je povinná četba k maturitě. Takže závěrěm. Jako normální knihu bych si to asi znova nepřečetla, ale jako povinná četba dost dobrý.

[ej · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75/5 puttin most weight to jekyll n hyde - though markheim was quite good, merrymen was fuckin terrible - jekyll n hyde was way more juicy than i expected n markheim seemed to solidify stevenson - merrymen was just such an unbearable slog it certainly lessened my desire to read more stevenson soon - but jekyll n hyde (as well as markheim) felt very atmospheric which i loved

[Brendan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
This would've been much more engaging if the entire story was told from Dr Jekyll's POV. Also, I found myself bored for most of it because I already knew the "twist". The new information was clever though.

Markheim: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Heavy handed and bloated. I did like the ending, though predictable.

The Merry Men: DNF
Stevenson isn't for me.

[Ken · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wasn't my first time reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and it is still a classic, although I do think Hyde's suicide is a cop-out. Given the build-up about how evil and interested in self-preservation he was, it seemed out of character. Really, at the end it felt more like Jekyll trapped in Hyde's body. Markheim was kinda meh. The Merry Men, now that was pretty cool. I can see why Arthur Machen was influenced by Stevenson; the description of the landscape of the Aros was quite vivid. The Scottish speech was also great to read aloud.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

"But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm; the praises of conscience began to grow into a thing of course; I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom; and at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught" (96).

[Yacoob · Rating 3 out of 5]

J&H netřeba popisovat, moc se mi ale líbila i poslední povídka, Kumpáni, hlavně kvůli atmosféře, zápletka je trochu - ehm - divočina :)

[Rob Carr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I quite liked the tale of Jekyll and Hyde but the other two stories in this edition I didn't enjoy so much.

[Carien · Rating 3 out of 5]

Have not read the other tales in the book.