I've been meaning to pick up a copy of Dr Jekyll
you can some incredibly cheap low quality penguin editions of some classics these days, I think that is one of them.

I got a copy of Dorian Grey a couple of weeks back.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:23, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I love that book so, so much.
Wilde was a complete wizard of the word.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)

same here
it's utterly superb. Did you see the film?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

He was certainly an 'inspiration' to me...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:41, Reply)

When reading Jekyll
keep in mind the Victorian obsession with science and how it replaced religion as the new absolute - and also about how they feared 'animal' emotions: how the ideal Victorian was someone who could suppress their 'base' instincts to be the genteel, controlled self-master...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

You can see this in Frankenstein as well
the Monster was a personification of this fear of losing their control and what might happen if they did.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:35, Reply)