The Long Victorian – c.1789 – 1914
The literary world of the Long Nineteenth Century, c.1789 – 1914
Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again; for there before my eyes--pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll! In an ideal world… Continue reading Book review: Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Book review - The Poison Belt: Being An Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle. Today is the anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930). So it seems fitting to post a review of one of his stories: The Poison Belt. One of my favourite… Continue reading REVIEW: The Poison Belt, Arthur Conan Doyle (1913)
Stripped of fine motives and pious words we are left with the raw human condition.
