Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I first read this novella many years ago, and it was a pleasure to read it again. The basics of the plot are pretty well known, but I will try to avoid any spoilers. I confess that having seen the episode of Gilligan’s Island entitled “And Then There Were None” I knew how the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ended long before I read it for the first time.

The novella has three narrators; the first is a lawyer, who learns of some violent incidents involving a man named Hyde. The lawyer knows Dr Jekyll, and there seems to be some relationship between Dr Jekyll and the man Hyde. The second narrator is a doctor who is a friend of Dr Jekyll. And the third narrator is Dr Jekyll himself. It is only during Dr Jekyll’s narrative that we learn the nature of the relationship between him and Hyde.

I highly recommend this book. It’s a very easy read, and the novella is fairly short. The other short stories are also worth reading.