City of Literature - Edinburgh - Jekyll and Hyde

[lynbrown]

This book is being given away by the thousands in Edinburgh. I have just read it and found it really hard going. Anyone else read it? Are there any useful leaflets that would help me understand all the meanings and nuances?

[andy-hughes]

Have a look here -

http://classiclit.about.com/od/drjekyll/fr/aa_ drjekyll.htm

[dundurn]

The association with Edinburgh is that RL Stevenson is believed to have gained the inspiration for Jekyll/ Hyde from the true story of Deacon William Brodie - a respectable Edinburgh cabinetmaker by day and a housebreaker and thief by night. Eventually caught, he was executed at the Tolbooth.

[andrea81]

Another fact is that Brodie was the first to be killed using the trap door on the gallows (which funnelly he designed)

"hung by his own design" - to quote

[andrea81]

I think i'm right, my uncle who does tours of Edinburgh told me this! x