<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 5 January 1886 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0 - 553 - 21277 - 8 </Td> </Tr> <P> Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson first published in 1886 . The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde . It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde . The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" entering the vernacular to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature: usually very good, but sometimes shockingly evil instead . </P> <P> Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can affect how to incorporate the interplay of good and evil into a story . While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about Deacon Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W.E. Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882 . In early 1884, he wrote the short story "Markheim", which he revised in 1884 for publication in a Christmas annual . According to his essay, "A Chapter on Dreams" (Scribner's, Jan. 1888), he racked his brains for an idea for a story and had a dream, and upon wakening had the intuition for two or three scenes that would appear in the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . Biographer Graham Balfour quoted Stevenson's wife Fanny Stevenson: </P>

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