Using a carefully-edited text and a unique cartoon-strip format to link important passages, the Livewire Graphics series brings to life the great classics, making them accessible to students of all abilities.
This book features in the following series: Graphic Retellings, Livewire Graphic Novels, Livewire Graphics .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 64 pages in this book. This is a comic book. This book was published 2003 by Hodder Education .
Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps best-known today for 'Treasure Island' and 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Phil Page is the co-author of the successful Shakespeare Graphics and Livewire Graphics series for Hodder Murray. Philip Page is an experienced author and illustrator. He is an ex-Deputy Head and teacher of English and History. Marilyn Pettit is Senior Advisor at Sandwell LEA.
This book contains the following story:
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In Robert Louis Stevensons novella Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll struggles with evil urges and so creates a potion in an attempt to mask the hidden evil within himself. Once taken, the potion unleashes Jekylls inner demon and he becomes the cruel and remorseless Hyde. And as time goes on Hydes strength grows so strong that Jekyll is unable to control it. And all ends tragically.