Adapted for Modern Readers
A foggy London street, a respectable doctor, a stranger nobody can quite describe — and a question that won’t sit still. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Adapted for Modern Readers gives Robert Louis Stevenson’s compact gothic novella a contemporary cleanup: Victorian sentence structures untangled, archaic legal and medical phrasing surfaced for clarity, and the original mood — clinical, claustrophobic, slowly unravelling — kept entirely intact. In a brisk read that still rewards careful attention, follow the lawyer Utterson as he picks at a friend’s secret and uncovers one of literature’s most enduring portraits of a divided self. A short, sharp, perfectly preserved classic for modern readers, classrooms, and book clubs.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet whose travels across Europe and the South Pacific shaped a remarkably broad body of work. Best known for the adventure of Treasure Island, the historical drama of Kidnapped, and the psychological gothic of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson was equally at home crafting brisk adventure for young readers and tightly compressed moral fables for adult ones.
