
Dr Jekyll is fascinated by the good and evil in the nature of man and he wondered if he could give each its own personality. The doctor discovered the way to do so, and got to work separating his own evil instincts from his own personality. He would assume the persona of Mr Hyde occasionally until he starts to take over his whole nature bit by bit. Dr Jekyll finds harder and harder to revert back the evil efect.
Robert Luis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh and died in 1894, at the age of 44 after a life of constant ill health. He studied law and traveled the world in search of better surroundings for his poor health. This is a masterly short novel that successfully married crime with horror, and has been widely popular since publication.