"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last." ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll & Hyde remains one of the top three Gothic novels of the 19th century, alongside Dracula and Frankenstein. Not bad for a book that took only days to write. Stevenson also had tuberculosis and was under the influence of cocaine at the same time. The term "Jekyll & Hyde" has entered our modern lexicon to describe the dual nature in man. Type in _Jekyll & Hyde psychology_ in Google and you will get over 3 million returns.
Interestingly, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was being performed theatrically at the same time as the Ripper murders started, making the actor, Richard Mansfield, a suspect in the murders because he played the role of Jekyll & Hyde too well.
Watch the movie for free on youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAd6bp0naAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjQaAK5Vof4
https://thebookshelf2015.blogspot.com/2018/04/many-penny-dreadfuls-dime-novels-and.html
Also: During his college years, Robert Louis Stevenson briefly identified himself as a "red-hot socialist". He later wrote: "I look back to the time when I was a Socialist with something like regret…. Now I know that in thus turning Conservative with years, I am going through the normal cycle of change and travelling in the common orbit of men's opinions."[https://tinyurl.com/uzhk4p4]
Jekyll was also a really good TV show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDQ_WwbTRg0
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