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Loved this story! Not on my list of books to finish during #AwesomeAugust @Andrew65 but once I started it I couldn't put it down. Having watched a couple of movie versions I didn't realize it was a short story😊

"..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."

(?: Jekyll and Hyde by TGY on DeviantArt)

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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.”

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Fanny Vandergrift Stevenson by John Moffat ( Scottish National Portrait Gallery)

Fanny was Robert Louis Stevenson‘s wife. 15 years his junior, she nursed him during bouts of ill health and was his literary editor and mentor. It was thanks to her that he returned to an abandoned manuscript and renamed it The Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde.

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Finished another classic!

There were a lot of moments in this book where I could see this being an odd metaphor for being transgender. Taking a potion to transform, being shunned by society. But it‘s probably because I‘m always thinking about that subject and really, I‘m a little too sleepy to make a good case for it.

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This classic is so familiar that it‘s easy to forget how shocking the plot once was for many readers.

How do we think about human beings? Are we good, evil, a confusing mixture of both? What would happen if we could give free reign to an evil side without suffering consequences?

My favourite line: “If he is Mr. Hyde then I shall be Mr. Seek.” 😃

Other than an abrupt ending I enjoyed this. Thanks again, @SerialReader !
(Photo from Wikipedia)

Always a great read for students of psychoanalysis and gothic fiction.

Going to dive into this classic tonight. I've never read it before but it sounds like it's right up my alley.

And I made some mini apple crumble tarts to eat when taking reading breaks. (Much too crumbly to eat while reading!😉)