Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a short novel by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, set in a foggy and respectable Victorian London. It follows the lawyer Gabriel Utterson as he investigates the link between his friend, the doctor Henry Jekyll, and the violent Edward Hyde, a mystery whose solution is that they are one man. Stevenson said the central idea came to him in a dream. The book became an immediate success and a powerful image of the divided human nature behind outward respectability. The names Jekyll and Hyde entered everyday language for a person with two contrasting sides, and the story has been adapted countless times for stage, film and television.
Before and after
- 28 November 1885Serbo-Bulgarian War
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- 1886Discovery of dysprosium
- 1886Publication of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- 1886Founding of Addis Ababa
- 1886Discovery of germanium
- 1886Statue of Liberty
- 1886Founding of Arsenal F.C.
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