A lawyer investigates the strange hold a violent, repulsive man named Hyde has over his old friend, the respectable Dr Jekyll. The truth, revealed in one of literature’s most famous twists, gave the world a phrase it still uses for anyone with two faces.
Stevenson’s novella is barely a hundred pages and moves like a thriller, yet it asks the permanent question: how much of what we call goodness is simply fear of being seen?
A one evening read that lasts a lifetime.
