April 21, 2009
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
"With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."
—Chapter 10, page 65
Fun Facts
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success when published. Within the first year of publication, it was adapted for the stage in both London and Boston.
- The idea for the novel came from a nightmare that Stevenson had. He was unable to finish the dream because he was awoken by his wife.
- After reading the first version to his wife, she suggested he could make it better so he burned the manuscript and rewrote it.
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