Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

..".Stevenson's short novel, written in 1885, is one of the ancestors of the modern mystery story...not only a good 'bogey story, ' as Stevenson exclaimed when awakening from a dream in which he had visualized it...It is also, and more importantly, a fable that lies nearer to poetry than to ordinary prose fiction, and therefore belongs to the same order of art as, for instance, " Madame Bovary" or "Dead Souls." VLADIMIR NABOKOV

""Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" is a double triumph. It has the outside excitement that belongs to Conan Doyle with the inside excitement that belongs to Henry James." G.K. CHESTERTON

""Jekyll & Hyde" I have read and found] admirable...worthy of Shakespeare." GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS