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- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5Bet this was a blitz before everyone and their kid knew the secret twist. A fine gothic novella, proceeding on railroad towards the ending you already knew was coming.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I am watching the new season of Penny Dreadful and they are featuring Dr. Jekyll this year. I realized I have never read this book, so I decided to pick it up in preparation for the show.
The writing feels very dense, and the pacing is slow. The reader slowly gets a feeling of dread, rather than outright scares. This is common with many of the horror stories of the period that I have read.
The story is interesting, with much musing on the nature of good and evil. It was a bit slower paced than I like, but this is a short book and easy to read in a day. - Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5It's not called a classic without good reason. It's an almost perfectly plotted short novel, all the parts complementing each other, all serving to build tension and anticipation. The good doctor is suitably tragic, Hyde is suitably degenerate and, despite having seen the multitude of adaptations over the years, it still feels remarkably fresh and modern. All of Stevenson's stylistic flourishes are on show, as well as his rarely bettered storytelling ability. I'd give it six stars if I could.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I was expecting more. Why? Because everyone knows the tale, I just assumed the writing would be better.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Small but incredibly effective. Like, I know Jekyll and Hyde are the same person. Everyone knows that. I still felt actually horrified at the reveal of that fact, because Stevenson did such a good job drawing the main characters and the people surrounding them. Like The Picture of Dorian Gray, (Wilde was an admirer of the book), it explores inner and outer natures by dividing them, showing what people might do if it would never be found out and never physically affect them, and it's all the more compelling because their flaws start out so small and relatable. Jekyll didn't suffer from a deep dark secret at first, he just didn't want anyone to know about his small flaws. Excellent for the Halloween season, and especially good read in company with Dorian Gray, because both are so complete, so layered, and so subtle where it counts.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5interesting... not what I remember from 15 yrs ago. that's what happens with memory and Hollywood influence.
- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5This is a re-read of this classic 19th century novella which has been the inspiration behind so many spin-offs since. It is a taut and atmospheric piece of writing, and the conclusion that Jekyll and Hyde are one and the same, two sides of the same being, only becomes evident near the end - it is hard for us to understand how this would have shocked and thrilled the reader in 1886, so familiar has the Jekyll and Hyde motif become.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5might be the best crafted short story I've ever read
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I love the story. However, since nearly 98% of the population is familiar with this story, it is kind of a drag to read this since you know how everything unfolds. I also didn't find the way in which the story was told very captivating. It is such a thin book, and I had a terrible time getting through it. I actually skipped parts in this book because they were so dreadfully boring.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5So short, but so powerful. This is one of those stories where you think you know how it goes, but upon reading you find that it has been re-interpreted for so many years in so many forms that it feels completely different. Well, not completely. But still, the decades of alterations made this novella feel fresh and rich. I would have liked it to be longer, since I was so drawn in by the world of dark clouds and sinister encounters, and the novella ends on an abrupt note. However, it was pleasingly eerie and direct while it lasted.
- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5I wasn't sure what to really expect with this one. Yes, it's a classic that "everyone knows about," but I didn't really know what it was about going into reading it. I knew there was a Doctor who turns himself into Mr. Hyde (pure evil). I didn't really know the specifics or anything about other characters or story line in general.
I have a somewhat ignorance with a good amount of classic books. I know them, I know enough to want to read them, but I don't peruse them further until I read them. This helps give me a fresh reaction to the story.
So my reaction to this story was great overall. Like many classics I actually listened to the audiobook version (librivox.org is GREAT for this and my budget) because it helps me read them at a good pace and makes it easier for me to pay attention. I just can't read some of the writing sometimes no matter how beautiful. Ok, back to the review, haha. It was a great story with a mystery and a great moral dilemma about good and evil. I won't really get into much more though. I know it's short and I'm not saying really anything at all. But I really like Stevenson's writing and the horror added into the mystery of what's going on. I've read Treasure Island only from him, so this is number 2 I've read. I'll have to now go and read more of him since I'm enjoying it. - Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5This is the first time I've ever read the original Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'll admit I had no idea it was written by the same author as Treasure Island, which I also have not read yet. I would not have put those two ideas to the same author, so it's been enlightening all around! It's also amazing to me what a short story this really was, only 94 pages, to have inspired so many adaptations and interpretations, movies, etc.
It was an interesting dark fantasy tale with an important lesson about giving in to our baser natures. The more we indulge them, the more it becomes who we are until we're no longer able to hide or control those tendencies. - Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5Great story. I was very surprised that the chronology was reversed. It starts at the end and works its way forward, a device that none of the knock-off versions of this tale use. A master story teller.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5The classic story of the good, but boring Dr Jekyll who transforms himself into the vital and evil Mr Hyde. Jekyll comes to loath him, but has become addicted.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5I originally selected this book because I have it on my bookshelf and I have never had the time to read it. I pulled it off the shelf and placed it by my bed with hopes to finish it before my reading class was over. As it turned out I just never found the time to crack open the cover. Therefore, I searched for the audio version. To my surprised I found it right away at a reseaonable price and by a narrartor with which I was familiar. I have listen to Dick Hill narrate several novels I have read by Sanda Brown. I listened to the book in one night. I was was intrigued by the story but also confused. I had a hard time following the narration. A few times I glanced through the book while i was listening to Dick read the pages. I was surprised with how difficult this book is to read. I didn't think it would be so complicated. I had never thought of this as a text for children, and now I really don't think that it is. I think the text is too difficult for many students, and students in the classes I teach would need a lot of background information taught before a story like this could be even be looked at. I do not forsee reading this book to my class, or for my class. I am glad I read the story and I feel it was important, but I think the text would be better suited for a college level course where students were able to talk about the characters in greater detail and with greater insight. I do recommend this book for adults. The text is a classic and it should still be read because it did explain what I knew about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I fantom I would have liked this book a lot more if I didn't already know from the start who was Hyde. Nevertheless, it was actually very interesting once the "action" picked up. Although I found Utterson somewhat boring at times, the ending of the book made it worth it to see it through. The most interesting part was definitely the explanation of Dr Jekyll himself at the end, which I read eagerly. Overall, it was a nice book.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Nice short read. Even though you know the ending ten pages in, I still enjoyed it.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5This creepy novel explores the good and evil found in all of us, as well as the marriage of science and mysticism, A fabulous horror classic!
- Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5Great piece of literature. Really interesting way of keeping the reader blind to very key pieces of information that would allow for easier identification of potential threats and climaxes. Really enjoy RLS and look forward to reading more of his work.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5two and a half stars--the plot was great, and it is such an original idea that is so often warped today, but the writing style overall had trouble captivating me.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5As with many classics, this book is far more subtle and nuanced than the modern reader might expect based upon subsequent movie adaptations. Nonetheless, I highly recommend this book as it is a wonderful combination of horror, suspense, humor and commentary on each of us.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5This books was surprisingly fun. It has a slow start for the first few pages, but after that it takes off.
A quick fun little read, definitely worth the time. - Calificación: 5 de 5 estrellas5/5I first read this tale as a child (I was a precocious and voracious reader). I was in my stage of being fascinated by horror movies so I couldn't wait to read this. I was simultaneously delighted and disappointed. The disappointement stemmed from the lack of lurid action. I wanted a monster. But I was enthralled by the notion that psychological monsters might be even worse. I was only in 5th grade - I had never thought of that. And of course, there was the masterful writing. While I didn't read just junk, I also hadn't been exposed to much great writing and this was among the best I'd read up to that point. It was well constructed and masterfully handled. I couldn't have expressed it such at the time, but I knew I was reading something good.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Jekyll and Hyde is a cultural landmark for English speaking peoples, yet while the basic premise of the story must be known to all, I heretofore had never sat down and read the work in its original. It is interesting to see how our preconceptions can mingle with reality. Rather than a book of violent rampages from a large and monstrous Mr. Hyde, it is a very subtle work of slowly built suspense and chilling horror, far from the typical Hollywood caricature given to Mr. Hyde. And though not a hugely profound work, the portrayal of the fight between a man's passions and his reason was richer than the black and white, good versus evil I had assumed it would be. Since this work is very short in nature, more of a novella than a true novel, I would recommend anyone who knows the story to pick it up and give it a read, it might just change your perspective the next time your presented with the poorly drawn caricatures.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I thought that I would give this classic another try via audiobook but my overall impression remains that this is one case where the movie is better (specifically the 1941 version with Spencer Tracy).
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Since references to the basic plot points of this story are so pervasive in popular culture, it's impossible to read this story for the first time without an awareness of what is to come. The removal of the element of suspense leaves the story flat, and its conclusion drags due to a lengthy revelation. While this revelation diluted the story's emotional effect for me, its content intrigued me. Jekyll's description of his tortured mind is infused with both theological and psychological themes. I'm not the first person to notice this. I discovered several articles in theological journals comparing its themes to Romans 7, and I'm sure I would have similar results in a search of the psychological literature. The audio version didn't work well for me because it didn't allow me to pause for reflection. I'll read a print edition next time.
- Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5I liked this book. It is a classic that deserves to be read and it took me about an hour to read it. Now I wonder why it took me so long to start reading it in the first place. Because it is a classic, I already knew what the end was going to be like, I already knew that Jekyll and Hyde were the same person, but that didn't mean I wasn't a bit shocked at the moral of this story. I like the way the story is built up and I like the main character, Mr Utterson as well. It is a story that lingers in your mind after you've finished it.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5Like most folks, I knew the broad outline of this story, but hadn't actually read it. I'm very glad I did. It's both simpler, and more complex, than a tale of one man split between his higher and his baser selves.
The telling is a combination of memior, and epistilary. Dr. Jeckyll's solicitor tells the story, including reading out some documents, including Dr. Jeckyll's final confession. Through the narrative, we meet a group of wholely believeable characters, through a beautifully structured tale. The writing is lovely and engaging. And the more I think about the plot, the more impressed I become. Generally, I can find a hole or two, but I don't mind in a well-told tale, or a story about really good characters. In this case, I can't find any. Nothing happens purely out of narrative imperative. Even at the end, it makes perfect sense that Edward Hyde not only wants, but needs to return to being Dr. Jeckyll, for all that he hates him.
This is a wonderful example of Sciene Fiction, and hard s/f at that. It is a chemical compound that allows him to seperate himself into two identities. The author very neatly keeps the experiment from being duplicated - the effect was caused by an unkown impurity in an indgredient. Dr. Jeckyll himself tries desperately to recreate the compound, but cannot. I simple makes sense that no one else is able to, either.
The story says volumes about the morals and philosopy of morals of the time. Dr. Jeckyll is trying to divorce himself from what he considers his baser urges. Those urges become a seperate identity, which takes on an outer shape reflecting his inner nature. It's taken for granted that morality or lack thereof would be obvious on someone's face.
Dr. Jeckyll may have been, originally, trying to put aside his baser urges. His chemical compound, however, gave him a way to indulge those urges, without consequence to himself. If Edward Hyde indulged in reprehensible acts, no one would think it had anything to do with Dr. Jeckyll. Even those who knew there was a connection, assumed that Hyde was blackmailing Jeckyll.
I find myself comparing this to the Orginal Series Star Trek Episode, "The Enemy Within". (Yes, everything in the world is connected to Star Trek. Hush.) In this episode, a transporter accident splits Captain Kirk into two men. They're physically identical, but one has all of Kirk's higher, gentler aspects, and the other has all of his baser, more violent aspects. The acting (Yes, there was so acting. Didn't I tell you to hush?) was the only difference between the two Kirks. And, unlike the good Dr. Jeckyll, Kirk found his salvation not in repression, but in integration. To be his best self, he needed both his angel and his devil.
Dr. Jeckyll, however, found that give way to his darker side gave that side power. To him and his contemporaries, Kirk's solution was unthinkable. The baser part of man was a thing to be fought, suppressed, ideally to be killed entirely. Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde is a dramatic lesson in the dangers of giving way to your baser urges. At the end, it was just thinking like Hyde that brought on the transformation; that part of him had become that strong.
I don't, personally, subscribe to that philosophy. But you don't have to agree with the underlying philosophy to be moved by the tale. Dr. Jeckyll let something dangerous into his life. Once he realized just how dangerous, he stopped using the compound, and put Hyde out of his mind entirely. But he gave into temptation. You could imagine him thinking, "It'll be okay just this one time." Who hasn't thought that? But that one more time was his undoing. - Calificación: 3 de 5 estrellas3/5Very interesting. I thought I had read this before but perhaps the memory is from the various takes on this in film or other stories. A very short novel, which I could have finished in a day if I had not been looking at booking holidays instead. It is ultimately about the duality of personality and I think about evil that lurks in us all. Dr Jekyll stumbled on a way of separating his identities from his normal benevelent self from his undernourished evil self in the evil form of Mr Hyde. The mystery of the events from his lawyer friend's point of view drew me in quite quickly. The confession at the end by Dr Jekyll was intriguing in the way he explained what was happening, and it seems like the good doctor was not entirely separate from that evil self throughout his life. So ultimately a struggle of good against evil and the perils of what happens if you indulge that evil.
- Calificación: 4 de 5 estrellas4/5I read it for my Great Books class in college. It is, for sure, a little weird, but it is interesting and it is a great book to find the patterns of contemporary literature. It has some mystery, it is sometimes frightening and it has a magical detail that I really liked.
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El extraño caso del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde (ilustrado) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll
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Copyright © 2013 / FV Éditions
Ilustraciones : C.R Macauley
ISBN 978-2-36668-557-2
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El extraño caso
del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde
R.L Stevenson, 1850-1894
Historia de la Puerta
Utterson, el notario, era un hombre de cara arrugada, jamás iluminada por una sonrisa. De conversación escasa, fría y empachada, retraído en sus sentimientos, era alto, flaco, gris, serio y, sin embargo, de alguna forma, amable. En las comidas con los amigos, cuando el vino era de su gusto, sus ojos traslucían algo eminentemente humano; algo, sin embargo, que no llegaba nunca a traducirse en palabras, pero que tampoco se quedaba en los mudos símbolos de la sobremesa, manifestándose sobre todo, a menudo y claramente, en los actos de su vida.
Era austero consigo mismo: bebía ginebra, cuando estaba solo, para atemperar su tendencia a los buenos vinos, y, aunque le gustase el teatro, hacía veinte años que no pisaba uno. Sin embargo era de una probada tolerancia con los demás, considerando a veces con estupor, casi con envidia, la fuerte presión de los espíritus vitalistas que les llevaba a alejarse del recto camino. Por esto, en cualquier situación extrema, se inclinaba más a socorrer que a reprobar.
-Respeto la herejía de Caín -decía con agudeza-. Dejo que mi hermano se vaya al diablo como crea más oportuno.
Por este talante, a menudo solía ser el último conocido estimable, la última influencia saludable en la vida de los hombres encaminados cuesta abajo; y en sus relaciones con éstos, mientras duraban las mismas, procuraba mostrarse mínimamente cambiado.
Es verdad que, para un hombre como Utterson, poco expresivo en el mejor sentido; no debía ser difícil comportarse de esta manera.
Para él, la amistad parecía basarse en un sentido de genérica, benévola disponibilidad. Pero es de personas modestas aceptar sin más, de manos de la casualidad, la búsqueda de las propias amistades; y éste era el caso de Utterson.
Sus amigos eran conocidos desde hacía mucho o personas de su familia; su afecto crecía con el tiempo, como la yedra, y no requería idoneidad de su objeto.
La amistad que lo unía a Nichard Enfield, el conocido hombre de mundo, era sin duda de este tipo, ya que Enfield era pariente lejano suyo; resultaba para muchos un misterio saber qué veían aquellos dos uno en el otro o qué intereses podían tener en común. Según decían los que los encontraban en sus paseos dominicales, no intercambiaban ni una palabra, aparecían particularmente deprimidos y saludaban con visible alivio la llegada de un amigo. A pesar de todo, ambos apreciaban muchísimo estas salidas, las consideraban el mejor regalo de la semana, y, para no renunciar a las mismas, no sólo dejaban cualquier otro motivo de distracción, sino que incluso los compromisos más serios.
Sucedió que sus pasos los condujeron durante uno de estos vagabundeos, a una calle de un barrio muy poblado de Londres. Era una calle estrecha y, los domingos, lo que se dice tranquila, pero animada por comercios y tráfico durante la semana. Sus habitantes ganaban bastante, por lo que parecía, y, rivalizando con la esperanza de que les fuera mejor, dedicaban sus excedentes al adorno, coqueta muestra de prosperidad: los comercios de las dos aceras tenían aire de invitación, como una doble fila de sonrientes vendedores. Por lo que incluso el domingo, cuando velaba sus más floridas gracias, la calle brillaba, en contraste con sus adyacentes escuálidas, como un fuego en el bosque; y con sus contraventanas recién pintadas, sus bronces relucientes, su aire alegre y limpio atraía y seducía inmediatamente la vista del paseante.
A dos puertas de una esquina, viniendo del oeste, la línea de casas se interrumpía por la entrada de un amplio patio; y, justo al lado de esta entrada, un pesado, siniestro edificio sobresalía a la calle su frontón triangular. Aunque fuera de dos pisos, este edificio no tenía ventanas: sólo la puerta de entrada, algo más abajo del nivel de la calle, y una fachada ciega de revoque descolorido. Todo el edificio, por otra parte, tenía las señales de un prolongado y sórdido abandono. La puerta, sin aldaba ni campanilla, estaba rajada y descolorida; vagabundos encontraban cobijo en su hueco y raspaban fósforos en las hojas, niños comerciaban en los escalones, el escolar probaba su navaja en las molduras, y nadie había aparecido, quizás desde hace una generación, a echar a aquellos indeseables visitantes o a arreglar lo estropeado.
Enfield y el notario caminaban por el otro lado de la calle, pero, cuando llegaron allí delante, el primero levantó el bastón indicando:
-¿Os habéis fijado en esa puerta? -preguntó. Y añadió a la respuesta afirmativa del otro-: Está asociada en mi memoria a una historia muy extraña.
-¿Ah, sí? -dijo Utterson con un ligero cambio de voz-. ¿Qué historia?
-Bien -dijo Enfield-, así fue. Volvía a casa a pie de un lugar allá en el fin del mundo, hacia las tres de una negra mañana de invierno, y mi recorrido atravesaba una parte de la ciudad en la que no había más que las farolas. Calle tras calle, y ni un alma, todos durmiendo. Calle tras calle, todo encendido como para una procesión y vacío como en una iglesia. Terminé encontrándome, a fuerza de escuchar y volver a escuchar, en ese particular estado de ánimo en el que se empieza a desear vivamente ver a un policía. De repente vi dos figuras: una era un hombre de baja estatura, que venía a buen paso y con la cabeza gacha por el fondo de la calle; la otra era una niña, de ocho o diez años, que llegaba corriendo por una bocacalle.
"Bien, señor -prosiguió Enfield-, fue bastante natural que los dos, en la esquina, se dieran de bruces. Pero aquí viene la parte más horrible: el hombre pisoteó tranquilamente a la niña caída y siguió su camino, dejándola llorando en el suelo. Contado no es nada, pero verlo fue un infierno. No parecía ni siquiera un hombre, sino un vulgar Juggernaut... Yo me puse a correr gritando, agarré al caballero por la solapa y lo llevé donde ya había un grupo de Personas alrededor de la niña que gritaba.
El se quedó totalmente indiferente, no opuso la mínima resistencia, me echó una mirada, pero una mirada tan horrible que helaba la sangre. Las personas que habían acudido eran los familiares de la pequeña, que resultó que la habían mandado a buscar a un médico, y poco después llegó el mismo. Bien, según este último, la niña no se había hecho nada, estaba más bien asustada; por lo que, en resumidas cuentas, todo podría haber terminado ahí, si no hubiera tenido lugar una curiosa circunstancia. Yo había aborrecido a mi caballero desde el primer momento; y también la familia de la niña, como es natural, lo había odiado inmediatamente. Pero me impresionó la actitud del médico, o boticario que fuese.
"Era -explicó Enfield-, el clásico tipo estirado, sin color ni edad, con un marcado acento de Edimburgo y la emotividad de un tronco. Pues bien, señor, le sucedió lo mismo que a nosotros: lo veía palidecer de náusea cada vez que miraba a aquel hombre y temblar por las ganas de matarlo. Yo entendía lo