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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
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This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality, and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.

©2000 Robert Louis Stevenson (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Psychological Scary Fiction

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Wonderful stories and narration.Thorough enjoyed them.Will listen to again. RLS is a master of story telling with beautiful use of language. Michael Kitchen does them justice. Perfect narration.

Wonderful stories.

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Atmospheric and completely transporting. Michael Kitchen's reading is fabulous ... he brings it all to life and does credit to Stevenson's prose.

Atmospheric and compelling

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But please, Mr Producer, please leave a pause between one chapter and the next - and in this case between one story and the next! I had to back up to realise that story two had begun at chapter four and then the third at chapter five. All this slightly detracted from Michael Kitchen's marvelous reading.
But haunting even so.

Haunting

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Michael Kitchen gives a feeling reading of the classic RLS tale.

"The Strange Case ..." is a classic tale and important in the history of gothic literature. I think it likely that readers at the time found it shocking. It's not very shocking now but pleasantly atmospheric. I find the style similar to Wilkie Collins.

There are two other tales in the set. The first, about bodysnatching, is very good although it ends abruptly. The second tale I found more of a chore without a satisfying ending. Neither could be described as terrifying.

Michael Kitchen makes the best of the material. It is atmospheric but I am not sure it has stood the test of time. Anyone interested in early gothic literature will likely appreciate it. For the rest of us, I am not so sure.

A Classic Tale excellently performed

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I was really disappointed by this book, I expected to read a marvellous book being given the famous name, but that wasn’t the case. The story itself doesn’t have any substance, nothing that one can understand the line of the story.

Disappointing book

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