First published in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella is a gothic psychological thriller that has lent its central metaphor to language itself. Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respected London physician, develops a potion that separates his respectable self from his amoral desires — unleashing the terrifying Mr. Edward Hyde upon Victorian society.
The story is a profound meditation on duality, repression, and the dangers of unchecked scientific ambition, and it has never lost its power to unsettle. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg and read one of the defining works of nineteenth-century horror and science fiction.