Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The work is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often spuriously called "split personality", referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one distinct personality. In this case, there are two personalities within Dr Jekyll, one apparently good and the other evil; completely opposite levels of morality. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.

When young Jim Hawkins meets Billy Bones, he quickly becomes intriguedby the mysterious former pirate. But little does Jim know thattheir meeting will soon send him on a path of swash-bucklingadventure across the ocean in the attempt to track down the treasuremarked on a pirate's map...

Nos encontramos en el antiguo Londres de finales del siglo XIX. El se or Utterson, un prestigioso abogado londinense, ha escuchado una historia de su amigo, el se or Enfield, que despierta su curiosidad. As , Utterson comienza una investigaci n para averiguar la verdadera identidad de Mr. Hyde, un hombre que se presenta muy unido a un viejo amigo conocido como el doctor Jekyll. Sus investigaciones llevan a Utterson, en primer lugar, a un testamento escrito por Jekyll, en el que hace propietario, en el caso de su muerte o desaparici n, de todos sus bienes a Hyde. M s tarde el abogado mantendr una conversaci n con Jekyll, el que le pedir que se olvide del asunto. Todo cambia cuando Hyde asesina a un respetado parlamentario ingl s, sir Danvers Carew, ante un testigo. Mientras Utterson ayuda en la investigaci n del crimen, Jekyll se vuelve cada vez m s solitario y melanc lico, y Utterson llega a pensar que el doctor est encubriendo a Hyde.