R.L. Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (POSTPONED)

Once a month we will have a Fantasy Addicts Book Club. This time our choice for the group is a really interesting book, “Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”. Anyway, whatever is connected to Robert Louis Stevenson, book, movies, places… will be discussed today!

"Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. It is about a London legal practitioner named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil.

If you have read or want to read the book, join us. If you haven’t read the book but you just want to know a bit more about it or you’re just interested in the subject, join us too! As I’ve always said, from the start, I will never force someone to read a book. But it’s nice to have a specific subject, at least once a month.

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“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.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)

“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.”
(Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)