Author:
The author of this story is Robert Louis Stevenson who has also written great books like Kidnapped and Treasure Island. His writing is sometimes hard to understand because he uses harder words. He was born in England and married a woman from California. He traveled all over the world mainly because he had to find a climate that would be best for his respiratory illness. The doctors thought he might die of
tuberculosis, however, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at just 44 yrs.
Story:
It starts out from the description of a lawyer, Mr. Utterson and his cousin Mr. Enfield. One day they are strolling through the streets of London when they see a very odd looking house. Mr. Enfiled then remembers a story related to this house and tells it to Mr. Utterson: he was walking home on a late night when he sees a girl and an odd looking man walking quickly. The girl bumps into the man, and the man just leaves her lying and screaming on the ground. Even though the child is not hurt, a doctor and Mr. Enfield make him pay the girl’s family. They find the name of the hideous man as Mr. Hyde.
After hearing this story about Mr. Hyde, Mr. Utterson goes home and finds a will of his friend, Dr. Jekyll. In that will the doctor says that all of his fortune would go to Mr. Hyde. Mr. Utterson wants to find out more about the man and one day he meets him. He feels that there is something evil about the man. He feels that his friend, Dr. Jekyll is in danger.
From then on, Mr. Utterson has many strange experiences with Dr. Jekyll and another of his friends, Dr. Lanyon. With the help of Dr. Jekyll’s butler, Mr. Poole, the lawyer is able to find the very dark secret of both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
This book is very short (only 100 pages), but one of the things I found bad about this book is it’s vocabulary. The author could have used easier words and sometimes it is hard to understand the story. If you read it, you should really look up the many big and hard words and then the story does make sense. I’m not going to tell you the secret (you probably have already guessed it) and you should read this book. It isn’t the best book I have read, but it is not that bad.