Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde

DR. JEKILL AND MR. HYDE

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First edition:

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekill and Mr. Hyde, 1886

In short:

Mr. Utterson, Dr. Jekill's kind notary, is worried: he has seen a checque written by the doctor in the hands of disturbing Mr. Hyde. And even worse, Dr. Jekill has written his will for the monster! In the case of death, all Jekill's possessions are to pass into the hand of his friend and benefactor Mr. Hyde. A brutal murder happens: Sir Danvers carrew is killed. When a friend of the doctor, old Dr. Lanyon, discovers the truth, he suddently dies. Mr. Utterson reads his last words and Jekill's cofession and then he understands the terrible experience that his client had been undergoing. Dr. Jekill has been using a series of drugs to free his perverse desires, becoming an unrecognizable being, but the process has got irreversible! Little by little, Jekill has been transformed into Hyde and eventually the later has replaced the former.

Selection of edition:

L'étrange Cas du Dr Jekyll et de Mr Hyde, illustrated by Pilorget, Gallimard, 1985.
Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde, illustrated by Véronique Ageorges, Deux coqs d'or, 1994.

More about Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde:

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekill and Mr. Hyde is one of the best-known novels written by Stevenson. It deals with how individuals are made up of contrary emotions and desires: the eternal battle between good and evil. The doctor, drinking a drug, managed to separate his two natures, good and evil, and this last one becomes Mr. Hyde. This plot was very successful even in cinema, and many adaptations have been filmed.