Salaperäinen Ovi
1878
A respectable Victorian London lawyer becomes obsessed with unraveling the connection between his friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, a man of impeccable reputation, and the violent, murderous creature called Edward Hyde. When Utterson discovers that Jekyll has written a will leaving everything to Hyde, that a young girl has been trampled in the street and paid hush money with Jekyll's check, and that Hyde seems to commit atrocities that Jekyll somehow survives, the reader is pulled into a nightmare of identity and repression. The truth, when it arrives, is both shocking and inevitable, a revelation about the civilization that produced it. This is not merely a horror story but a precise anatomical examination of Victorian respectability and the violence it papered over. Stevenson understood that every gentleman contained a beast, and he gave that beast a name.
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“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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